Asus Rampage V Edition 10 (X99) Motherboard Review

We will be outlining the Asus Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard’s performance with the Core i7 6950X CPU and 32GB of 3200MHz G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 memory.

By default, the Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard applies an aggressive multi-core turbo (MCT) state and forces the 6950X to a constant 4.0GHz when XMP is enabled. This is representative of what motherboard vendors perceive to be the maximum all-core stable CPU operating state, as guided by the Broadwell-E CPUs' Turbo Boost 3.0 operations.

Asus uses around 1.25V for the force-turbo setting. This is a decent level that even mid-range CPU coolers can handle.

X99 Motherboard Test System:

• Processor: Intel Core i7 6950X (4.0GHz forced turbo).
• Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill TridentZ 3200MHz 14-14-14-34 DDR4 @ 1.35V.
• Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 980 Ti Reference.
• System Drive: 240GB SanDisk Extreme II SATA 6Gbps SSD.
• Games Drive: 960GB SK Hynix SE3010 SATA 6Gbps SSD.
• CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i GT.
• Power Supply: Seasonic Platinum 760W SS-760XP.
• Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit.

Compared X99 Motherboards:

• Asus X99-Deluxe.

Software:

• Asus Rampage V Edition 10 BIOS v0801.
• GeForce 368.39 VGA drivers.

Tests:

• Cinebench R15 – All-core CPU benchmark (CPU)
• HandBrake 0.10.2 – Convert 1.72GB 1440P ShadowPlay game recording using the High Profile setting and MP4 container (CPU)
• SiSoft Sandra 2016 SP1 (build 2220) – Processor Arithmetic Test (CPU) and Memory Bandwidth Test (Memory)
• AIDA64 Engineer v5.75.3900 – Memory Latency Benchmark (Memory)
• 7-Zip 16.02 beta – Manual 1.72GB ShadowPlay game recording archival, .7z format and normal compression level (System)
• 3DMark Fire Strike v1.1 – Fire Strike (1080p) test (Gaming)
• Ashes of the Singularity – Built-in benchmark tool, 1920 x 1080, Crazy quality preset, DX12 version (Gaming)
• Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0 – Built-in benchmark, Extreme HD preset (Gaming)
• ATTO – SATA 6Gbps and USB transfer rates (Motherboard)
• RightMark Audio Analyzer – Record and playback test using a line-in to line-out loopback with a 3.5mm audio cable (Motherboard)

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