Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Review

Written by Paul Goodhead

August 3, 2011 | 11:49

Tags: #best-motherboard #black #comparison #how-to-overclock #lga1156 #lucid-hydra #overclocking #p67 #performance #z68

Companies: #pure #sapphire

Media Benchmarks

Download from: bit-tech.net

We've developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open-source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake, and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while an HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring system is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

Multi-tasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7-Zip
Multi-tasking is a phrase that we're all familiar with, because most of us are now used to running multiple applications at the same time. However, to run multiple applications well you need a powerful (ideally multi-core) CPU and plenty of RAM.

Our multi-tasking test performs a massive file backup (with encryption) using 7-Zip, while simultaneously playing back a HD movie file using mplayer, making it a demanding test for any PC.

Multi-tasking

mPlayer and 7-Zip

  • Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
  • Biostar TP67XE (B3)
  • Asus P8P67
  • Asus Sabertooth P67
  • Asus P8P67-M Pro
  • MSI P67A-GD53 (B3)
  • ASRock P67 Extreme 4
  • Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra
    • 1462
    • 1914
    • 1451
    • 1884
    • 1448
    • 1870
    • 1446
    • 1852
    • 1445
    • 1932
    • 1406
    • 1821
    • 1392
    • 1904
    • 1355
    • 1833
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Points, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our performance analysis.

Overall Score

The overall score is an unweighted mean average of the scores of the three individual tests.

Overall Score

Gimp, Handbrake, mplayer, 7-Zip

  • Asus Sabertooth P67
  • Asus P8P67-M Pro
  • Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
  • Biostar TP67XE (B3)
  • Asus P8P67
  • MSI P67A-GD53 (B3)
  • ASRock P67 Extreme 4
  • Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra
    • 1936
    • 2662
    • 1928
    • 2744
    • 1926
    • 2703
    • 1914
    • 2661
    • 1904
    • 2691
    • 1899
    • 2693
    • 1890
    • 2665
    • 1848
    • 2602
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
Points, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our performance analysis.
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