Testurteil: "5 out of 5 stars"
Test: Einzeltest: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z Motherboard
Zitat: Pro: + Small Form Factor
+ Dual GPU support
+ factory Turbo Overclock
+ Virtu Feature that Works
+ Red and Black Color Scheme
+ Lots of ROG Features
Contra: - Not all MicroATX cases support high end boards
- Bluetooth not included
Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story, but is a good indication of what the system would probably be capable of doing under the right conditions. The Core i7 2600K is a very powerful processor despite only having a dual channel memory controller. The new Rightmark audio benchmark is a great tool for exposing audio specs for the various chips and software used and read much like if you were buying an amplifier or sound system for your house. What you can take away from this is that the sound quality is "good" for an onboard audio solution. We did color code some of the other numbers to give you an indication as to what each of the numbers mean. You may notice that the synthetic numbers are a little higher than the reference system(s) which is due to the default clock coming in at 3.8Ghz instead of the standard 3.5Ghz. It would appear that we have some factory overclocking in the default BIOS which isn´t always a bad thing. This overclock does go away once you set the XMP memory profile, knowing this you can decide which is best for you. We should also mention that the Rightmark audio specs go from Good to Poor when you enable the Creative audio driver. This is likely in response to what the software does to simulate the various effects that enhance our audio experience. The specs you see above were taken with the Creative effects disabled and actually turned out halfway decent.