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 EVGA Z87 Stinger went as expected. I also noticed its slightly lower memory performance. Like with the previously tested ASUS Z87I-PRO, it did not improve with an overclock. That said, all the results are pretty much inline with the ASUS board, so something must be amiss with some of these Intel Z87 boards or my testing procedure. I simply enable XMP and adjust CPU clocks and voltages to appropriate levels before running my tests, and as an end user, you really should not have to do much more than that. Given that memory performance appears to suffer more than anything else and all other numbers are where I would expect them to be with such poor memory performance, exploring how the CPU cache multipliers are profiled is the only other option as some boards automatically come with highly elevated cache multipliers while others adhere to the "stock" thirty-five inherent to the 4770 K. Either way, playing with the options in BIOS will increase performance to the levels most users expect, but unlike with other board, getting the most out of the EVGA Z87 Stinger will take some time.

AIDA64

CPU OC Performance

3D-Oriented OC Performance

3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage

3DMark11 and PCMark 07

3DMark PCMark8

Metro: Last Light

Sniper Elite V2

Shogun 2

F1 2010