Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Motherboard Review

Cinebench

We used the ‘CPU’ test built into Cinebench R15 .

WinRAR

WinRAR’s built in benchmark and hardware test can help us outline the performance differentials between each motherboard. We record the amount of data processed after a 30-second run.

Handbrake Conversion

We measured the average frame rate achieved for a task of converting a 4.36GB 720P MKV movie to 720P MP4 format.

CPU-heavy benchmarks show little variation between each Z97-based board. Handbrake conversion frame rates show a slight preference to the Asus motherboard thanks to its higher cache frequency, although the minute difference is almost irrelevant.

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