3Dmark Vantage
While 3Dmark Vantage is generally seen as a benchmark for video cards, it can also be used in order to determine processor performance by running the CPU tests only. It gives you a great idea of performance since Vantage takes advantage of extra processor cores and hyper threading.
Pretty good score for stock clocks. You would roughly need a 5.5ghz quad core chip to get that kind of a CPU score.
MaxxMem
MaxxMem is a memory benchmark, it is primarily influenced by memory speed and timings and secondarily by cache size and speed.
The X79-GD65 (8D) is a nice bit faster than other boards at stock settings. It would be nice if that carried over to overclocked results as well.
Cinebench 11.5
Cinebench 11.5 is a CPU benchmark, it doesn’t care much about memory speed, it doesn’t care all that much about cache size or speed, it case about getting data into the CPU and calculating it. Hence it is a good test of how efficient a motherboard is at doing just that: Crunching data.
It is impressive to see a Hex core processor come so close to a octo-core processor.
Wprime
This benchmark is a great indicator of processor performance. It can be set to any amount of threads so multiple cores and hyperthreading helps huge amounts in Wprime. Clock speeds are also a great indicator for improvements in Wprime.
The fact that it broke 5 seconds in 32m and 150 secons in 1024 means this board is pretty damn efficient at stock clocks. If that efficiency carries over to overclocked scores it should be an awesome benchmarking board.
Enough of that stocked clocked stuff. Its time for the exciting stuff, overclocking.
