CPU Performance Results

I spent a week with the ASRock Z77 Extreme9 before beginning our performance testing, running various configurations and CPUs, and checking hardware compatibility. We verified our power consumption numbers using various different power supplies, and played a few hours of games with some members of the TPU community to get an overall feel for the board and to verify stability. Once completed, we tore down the system, mounted our Noctua cooler and put the board through the paces.

SuperPi

SuperPI serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The ASRock Z77 Extreme9 ended up right in the middle here of all our results, but as far as Intel Z7 7Express products go, it's pretty slow, around six seconds slower than the others, in fact.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the numbers were much the same with the ASRock Z77 Extreme9 on the lower end of Intel Z77 Express results.

WinRAR

Part of our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. In this test, the ASRock Z77 Extreme9 was again underwhelming.

AIDA64

We employed AIDA64's memory bench to highlight memory bandwidth. We isolate the write performance metric as it serves as a good indicator of overall memory performance. Again the ASRock Z77 Extreme9 scored average, sitting just behind the Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with the ASRock Z77 Extreme9 sitting a bit behind again.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the ASRock Z77 Extreme9 was yet again a bit slower than the other tested Intel Z77 Express products on the GPU side, and the CPU portion was just the same.