Overclocking

One of the main design focuses with the ASUS Maximus V Gene is overclocking, and it definitely does it well. To reach our 4.6 GHz "reference" overclock required setting 1.19 V in BIOS, and simply enabling XMP and setting the Turbo multi to 46 for all Turbo modes. This is where the real comparison happens, too, as the playing field is 100% level as each motherboard has the exact same frequency settings, except for the very minor BCLK difference. Let's look at the numbers.

Overclocked Performance Summary

Cinebench saw the ASUS Maximus V Gene come out on top of all tested Z77 Express products.


Likewise, SuperPi 32m results proved the same as Cinebench, with substantial performance increases that are also noticed on previous Intel platforms, although the ASUS Maximus V Gene also managed a bit of better result than all others here too.


WPrime 1024M numbers further the results, showing a near half-a-second performance advantage.


For a bit of 3D action we fired up CodeMaster's F1 2010 to be impressed with the performance boost offered compared to the other products. Again the ASUS Maximus V Gene is on top, with nearly a full one FPS advantage.


With Codemaster's F1 2010 starting to show its age, and proving less reliable in showing performance increases, we've added the Shogun 2 DirectX 9 CPU benchmark to our testing suite. In the months to come, it will get added to the main testing section, but for now, it does show a very large increase in performance when run on the overclocked ASUS Maximus V Gene, yet again putting the Gene board on top. There's no doubt here now that the ASUS Maximus V Gene excels when overclocking.