A new series of motherboards allowed us to change the benchmark suite, but Crysis still gathers interest and amusement among many enthusiasts. An actual game that few people play, this is the closest thing we have to a “synthetic” bench in today’s tests.


We’re looking for the mythical performance loss that supposedly comes from enabling onboard graphics on Z68 (with Lucidlogix's Virtu software running), yet the P67 platform only tops one of the two Crysis charts.


P67 also tops one of the F1 2010 charts, again at low settings. It appears that any performance loss, if applicable, affects some part of the system other than the add-in graphics card.
Summary
- Overclocking, Quick Sync, And SSD Caching
- ASRock Z68 Extreme4
- Z68 Extreme4 UEFI
- Z68 Extreme4 Utilities
- Asus P8Z68-V Pro
- P8Z68-V Pro UEFI
- P8Z68-V Pro Utilities
- Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
- Z68X-UD3H BIOS
- Z68X-UD3H Utilities
- Test Settings
- Benchmark Results: Crysis And F1 2010
- Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2 And Metro 2033
- Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Power, Heat, And Efficiency
- Overclocking Results
- Conclusion