So I tested our in-house developed (very CPU intensive) app on several different Asus motherboards:
This is quite unexpected. So I decided to overclock Z270 and brought the CPU to 5.2Ghz. This closed the performance gap a little, but Mining Expert was still faster than 30~50%. I then gave Z270 better RAM (G.SKILL DDR4 3866) and overclocked the memory to 3333Mhz. This only brought Z270 performance slight closer to Mining Expert, but Mining Expert was still faster than ~20%.
Anyway, this puzzles me quite a bit. Consider the marketing material saying the Z270-WS board uses not only better chipset, but also "premium" capacitors and I also was overclocked it much faster... I have considered the following factors:
> ASUS B250 Mining Expert (no GPU used)
> ASUS Z270-WS (this is considered the premium overclockable board)
> ASUS PRIME B250M-A (this is a budget board)
This is quite unexpected. So I decided to overclock Z270 and brought the CPU to 5.2Ghz. This closed the performance gap a little, but Mining Expert was still faster than 30~50%. I then gave Z270 better RAM (G.SKILL DDR4 3866) and overclocked the memory to 3333Mhz. This only brought Z270 performance slight closer to Mining Expert, but Mining Expert was still faster than ~20%.
Anyway, this puzzles me quite a bit. Consider the marketing material saying the Z270-WS board uses not only better chipset, but also "premium" capacitors and I also was overclocked it much faster... I have considered the following factors:
> Mining Expert uses three PSU, so the power is much more stable?
> Mining Expert has only two memory lanes? (this seems laughable, I know).