Review-Gigabyte G1.Assassin: High-end Gaming in “Military” Style, Part 2 (Performance)

Motherboard Performance in Benchmarks and Real-world Applications

Now, let’s move on to the performance assessment of this motherboard itself. We used the following hardware combination in our test:

Test Platform

Processor: Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Assassin
Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 580
Memory: 3×2 Gb Kingston HyperX blu.
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64 Gb
Power Supply: Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 800 Watt
Heatsink: Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
Monitor: Philips 221E
Input: Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Driver: Intel INF Driver 9.2.0.1021; Forceware 266.58

Blender 2.56a

Blender is an open-source 3D-modelling software. Performance is measured through the amount of time needed to render a 3D object. Lower figures represent better results.

Cinebench R11.5

Cinebench benchmark calculates hardware performance in rendering a 3D scene. The final results are measured in points. Higher points mean better performance.

Excel 2010 – Montecarlo

Surely you are well familiar with this popular spreadsheet application from Microsoft. Here, we see how fast each processor could finish the “Monte Carlo Simulation Table” in Excel 2010. The final scores are measured in seconds. Smaller figures indicate better results.

FastStone PhotoResizer

FastStone PhotoResizer is an image converter/ resize software capable of applying image manipulations such as resizing, cropping, rotating, and others on multiple files through batch operation. For the purpose of this test, we convert a collection of TIFF images (66 files; 527 MB total size) to JPEG format (quality level: 90). Each of the pictures is also resized to 600 pixels on the longest side. The entire process only utilizes one processor core (thread). Therefore, processors with high clockspeeds would have a slight advantage over slower CPUs. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the resizing and converting process. Lower scores are better.