Z97 Motherboard Group Test - Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI

May 11, 2014 | 08:00

Tags: #asrock-z97 #asus-z97 #best-z97-motherboard #gigabyte-z97 #intel-z97 #lga1150 #m2 #msi-z97 #sata-express

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SATA Performance
Website: ATTO Disk Benchmark

We tested the SATA and performance with an OCZ Vector 128GB, as this is one of the fastest SSDs we've ever tested, and it can test the maximum speed of SATA 3Gbps and SATA 6Gbps ports.

We use ATTO Disk Benchmark, and take the read and write speeds for 1,024KB data chunks.

SATA 6Gbps Performance

ATTO Disk Benchmark

  • Asus Maximus VI Impact (Intel Z87)
  • ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer (Intel Z97)
  • Asus Maximus VII Ranger (Intel Z97)
  • Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI (Intel Z97)
  • MSI Gaming 7 (Intel Z97)
  • MSI Gaming 7 (ASMedia ASM1061)
    • 545
    • 520
    • 544
    • 519
    • 544
    • 522
    • 544
    • 519
    • 544
    • 520
    • 382
    • 382
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MB/sec, higher is better
  • Read
  • Write

Power Consumption
Website:
Prime95

To see how much power the motherboard consumed at idle and load and while at stock speeds and when overlcocked, we used Prime95 to stress the CPU to its limits, putting all eight cores of our Core i7-4770K test CPU under load and allowing the power readout to level off.

Power Consumption (Idle)

Windows Aero enabled

  • Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI
  • MSI Gaming 7
  • Asus Maximus VII Ranger
  • ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer
    • 51
    • 54
    • 53
    • 62
    • 55
    • 61
    • 55
    • 59
0
10
20
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50
60
Watts, lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

Power Consumption (Load)

Windows Aero enabled

  • Asus Maximus VII Ranger
  • Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI
  • MSI Gaming 7
  • ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer
    • 119
    • 180
    • 122
    • 193
    • 124
    • 182
    • 136
    • 194
0
50
100
150
200
Watts, lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

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