Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Motherboard Review

3DMark

We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike’ benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.

Sandra Processor Arithmetic

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

Performance in system-related benchmarks shows each board to be similarly satisfactory. The Sandra memory bandwidth benchmark favours Asus' Maximus VII Hero thanks to the board's tendency to set a cache frequency of 4.4GHz, as opposed to Gigabyte's 4.0GHz.

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