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Comparison Products
We’ll be comparing the Asus TUF H310M-Plus Gaming to similarly appointed boards we’ve tested recently, namely the MSI H310M Gaming Plus and ASRock H310M-G/M.2.
ASRock H310M-G/M.2
Asus TUF H310M-Plus Gaming
MSI H310M Gaming Plus
The test system here contains different a different graphics card and RAM as other Tom’s Hardware board reviews, as well as an updated W10 64-bit OS (in order to use the RTX based GPU), so this data is not comparable to other reviews of the same chipset.
Test System Components
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| CPU | Intel Core i3-8350K ($169.00 On Walmart) |
| Memory | HyperX Fury DDR4 ($24.69 On Walmart) |
| Graphics | Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition ($349.99 On NVIDIA) |
| SSD | Toshiba OCZ RD400 ($89.99 On Amazon) |
| Cooler | EVGA CLC 240 ($115.23 On Walmart) |
| PSU | EVGA G3 750W ($129.99 On Amazon) |
| Sound | Integrated HD audio |
| Network | Integrated gigabit networking |
| Graphics Driver | GeForce 419.67 |
Benchmark Settings
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| Synthetic Benchmarks and Settings | |
| PCMark 8 | Version 2.7.613Home, Creative, Work, Storage, Applications (Adobe & Microsoft) |
| 3DMark 13 | Version 4.47.597.0Skydiver, Firestrike, Firestrike Extreme Default Presets |
| SiSoftware Sandra | Version 2016.03.22.21CPU Arithmetic, Multimedia, Cryptography, Memory Bandwidth |
| DiskSPD | 4K Random Read, 4K Random Write128K Sequential Read, 128K Sequential Write |
| Cinebench R15 | Build RC83328DEMOOpenGL Benchmark |
| CompuBench | Version 1.5.8Face Detection, Optical Flow, Ocean Surface, Ray Tracing |
| Application Tests and Settings | |
| LAME MP3 | Version 3.98.3Mixed 271MB WAV to mp3: Command: -b 160 --nores (160Kb/s) |
| HandBrake CLI | Version: 0.9.9Sintel Open Movie Project: 4.19GB 4K mkv to x265 mp4 |
| Blender | Version 2.68aBMW 27 CPU Render Benchmark, BMW 27 GPU Render Benchmark |
| 7-Zip | Version 16.02THG-Workload (7.6GB) to .7z, command line switches "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=9" |
| Adobe After Effects CC | Release 2015.3.0, Version 13.8.0.144PCMark-driven routine |
| Adobe Photoshop CC | Release 2015.5.0, 20160603.r.88 x64PCMark-driven routine (light and heavy) |
| Adobe InDesign CC | Release 2015.4, Build 11.4.0.90 x64PCMark-driven routine |
| Adobe Illustrator | Release 2015.3.0, Version 20.0.0 (64-bit)PCMark-driven routine |
| Game Tests and Settings | |
| Ashes of the Singularity | Version 1.31.21360High Preset - 1920 x 1080, Mid Shadow Quality, 1x MSAACrazy Preset - 1920 x 1080, High Shadow Quality, 2x MSAA |
| F1 2015 | 2015 Season, Abu Dhabi track, RainMedium Preset, no AFUltra High Preset, 16x AF |
| Metro: Last Light Redux | Version 3.00 x64High Quality, 1920 x 1080, High Tesselation, 16x AFVery High Quality, 1920 x 1080, Very High Tesselation, 16x AF |
| The Talos Principle | Version 267252Medium Preset, High Quality, High Tesselation, 4x AFUltra Preset, Very High Quality, Very High Tesselation, 16x AF |
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