By default, the ASRock board is clocked at a Base Clock of 134MHz. Due to the nature of the Core i7 CPU where it clocks faster when temperatures are lower, I imagine the ASRock board will have higher overall performance as 134MHz higher clock can make a difference when comparing two identical systems with the same chipset.
Test System
- Core i7 920 CPU running at 2.66GHz
- 3GB Kingston DDR3 1600MHz running at 1600MHz
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs running in RAID 0 Mode
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB running Catalyst 8.11
- Thermaltake ToughPower XT 850W
- Windows Vista with SP1 installed
- ASRock X58 Extreme motherboard running latest drivers
Tests
- Sysmark 2007 Preview Patch 3
- PCMark05/Vantage
- 3DMark06/Vantage
- x.264
- 7zip
- wPrime
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
- PiFast
- SpecViewPerf
