Overclocked Performance Summary

I have really changed how I do my overclock testing with motherboards. Every single test you see in the main section is repeated in the section that follows, including power consumption. As I test more products, a good picture of overclocking efficiency should emerge, which should prove interesting when it comes to those products that are 100% overclocking-oriented. I have grouped the results into sections here, and all Intel products are tested with 4.6 GHz CPU speed. Memory speeds vary depending on the platform's ability. I'll report it here if a board fails to pass one of these tests, I need to increase voltages, or am perhaps allowed to drop voltages.


Overclocking with the ASUS GRYPHON Z87 was really easy. ASUS has spent considerable time optimizing every product's BIOS to make general overclocking as easy as possible for the end user while still offering all the needed options that expert users require. The ASUS GRPYHON Z87 is no different in this regard. Simply enabling the XMP profile for my DIMMs and adjusting both CPU- and Cache voltage had me running my stable reference 4.6 GHz overclock. I also managed to get that overclock using slightly lower options in the BIOS than with the MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING motherboard, but loaded power consumption was close between the two, so their actual voltage values were perhaps pretty close to one another. Memory overclocking wasn't quite as easy to begin with on the ASUS GRYPHON Z87, but I still managed to get 2933 MHz stable, although it required a bit more work on my part. The BIOS is pretty new, so that will only improve with time.

AIDA64

CPU OC Performance

3D-Oriented OC Performance

3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage

3DMark11 and PCMark 07

3DMark

Metro: Last Light

Sniper Elite V2

Shogun 2

F1 2010