3D Mark
Probably one of the oldest 3D benchmarks out there, and certainly what got us into benching many years ago! The Rampage V Extreme results are something to look at, with the PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 770 showing its age in Firestrike, the others show through a sizeable jump for Sky Diver and Cloud Gate. We used the MSI Z97I GAMING AC Motherboard for our Twin Frozr V review and it shows.
Crystal Mark
CrystalDiskMark 64 Bit was used running sequential read/write tests. We ran the tests 9 times per benchmarks and spread them across 50Mb, 1000Mb and 4000Mb. The Rampage V Extreme almost maxes out the SanDisk in non-RAID the 475 MB/s specification in Read, not quite the same story for write, with the disc specification showing 375 MB/s opposed to the 257.7 MB/s at its best with CrystalDiskMark.
For anything other than games and audio/video processing you are not really going to notice. However, would you buy a Rampage V Extreme and not be a gamer?
ADIA64 Disk Benchmark
ADIA64 demonstrates you should never rely on one benchmark alone.
ADIA64 runs a different set of read tests to CrystalDiskMark and from a motherboard point of view, we are getting the full SanDisk SSD bandwidth.
ADIA64 Cache, Memory and GPU Benchmark
The ADIA64 looks like it has misreported the CPU clock as 3.8Ghz. The turbo on the CPU is 3.6Ghz and we verified at the time using HWiNFO64, though it is another Third Party tool that could have misrepresented, we are pretty certain. A quick conversation with the helpful guys over at ADIA64 and they say they have some issues with Haswell-E/X99 resolved after this was tested.
Same again for the GPGPU results, 3.8Ghz, though we are not too concerned at this time, newer chipsets are historically bad for this type of thing.
Asus Rampage V Extreme Motherboard Review
Package - 9.5
Performance - 9
Price - 7
Consumer Experience - 7
8.1
How can an overall score of four get a recommended? The Consumer Experience rating really brought the final mark down, just imagine what this would have been if there had been a little more consumer experience thinking. We haven't tested every aspect or feature of this motherboard, there is so much crammed in it wasn't possible. We stuck to the performance and the main features but you really need read and try to understand the full feature set that comes with this motherboard, it's insane.
