CCL Athena Aura (i5/1070) System Review

1. Introduction2. CCL Athena Aura3. Testing Methodology and Configuration4. SiSoft Sandra5. Cinebench R156. Handbrake Video Encoding7. SSD & HDD Performance8. USB 3.0 Bandwidth Testing9. 3DMark 1110. 3DMark11. VRMark12. Grand Theft Auto V (1080p, 1440p and 4K)13. Rise of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p and 4K)14. Ashes of the Singularity (1080p, 1440p and 4K)15. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p and 4K)16. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p and 4K)17. Thermal Dynamics and Acoustics18. Power Consumption19. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

3DMark 11 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

The Athena Aura comes out as the fastest GTX 1070-based system I've tested thanks to the high factory overclock on the Strix card.

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