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Firmware, Software and Test System

Firmware

The Maxsun UEFI BIOS is somewhat of a throwback to the days of old, looking somewhat basic compared to others from the major board partners. First, there isn’t an ‘easy mode.’ You just jump right into the advanced portion. Across the top are several headers (Main, Advanced, Power, Turbo, Startup, Security, and Exit), with subheadings below. The right third displays a system summary, including CPU temperatures and voltage, fan speeds, and more, while the left side is where you select the options within. It does the job and offers plenty of functionality. It’s just not up there among the best-looking UEFIs.

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Maxsun iCraft Z790ITX Wi-Fi — (Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

Software

On the software side of things, there isn’t much to talk about. The only software available to download is the Maxsun LED application to control any attached RGB lighting. While the Maxsun LED application does the job, we couldn’t find a version that was ALL in English, so we’re not sure what some of the options are. We don’t find any driver installation helper applications or software utilities to control the system (be it fans or overclocking). Any tweaks have to come from the BIOS, at least for now.

Test System / Comparison Products

We’ve updated our test system to Windows 11 64-bit OS with all updates applied. We kept the same Asus TUF RTX 3070 video card from our previous testing platforms but updated the driver. We also updated to F1 22 for our games and kept Far Cry 6. We use the latest non-beta motherboard BIOS available to the public. The hardware we used is as follows:

Test System Components

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Test System Components
CPU	Intel Core i9-13900K
Memory	Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000 CL36 (KF560C36BBEAK2-32)
	GSkill Trident Z DDR5-5600 CL36 (F5-5600U3636C16GX2-TZ5RK)
GPU	Asus TUF RTX 3070
Cooling	Coolermaster MasterLiquid PL360 Flux
PSU	EVGA Supernova 850W P6
Software	Windows 11 64-bit (22H2)
Graphics Driver	Nvidia GeForce Driver 522.25
Sound	Integrated HD audio
Network	Integrated Networking (GbE or 2.5 GbE)

EVGA supplied our Supernova 850W P6 power supply (appropriately sized and more efficient than the 1.2KW monster we used previously) for our test systems, and G.Skill sent us a DDR5-5600 (F5-5600U3636C16GX2-TZ5RK) memory kit for testing.

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Motherboard Testbed Components — (Image credit: EVGA)

Benchmark Settings

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Synthetic Benchmarks and Settings	Row 0 - Cell 1
Procyon	Version 2.1.459 64
Row 2 - Cell 0	Office Suite (Office 365), Video Editing (Premiere Pro 22.6.2.2), Photo Editing (Photoshop 23.5.1, Lightroom Classic 11.5)
3DMark	Version 2.22.7359 64
Row 4 - Cell 0	Firestrike Extreme and Time Spy Default Presets
Cinebench R23	Version RBBENCHMARK330542
Row 6 - Cell 0	Open GL Benchmark - Single and Multi-threaded
Blender	Version 3.3.0
Row 8 - Cell 0	Full benchmark (all 3 tests)
Application Tests and Settings	Row 9 - Cell 1
LAME MP3	Version SSE2_2019
Row 11 - Cell 0	Mixed 271MB WAV to mp3: Command: -b 160 --nores (160Kb/s)
HandBrake CLI	Version: 1.2.2
Row 13 - Cell 0	Sintel Open Movie Project: 4.19GB 4K mkv to x264 (light AVX) and x265 (heavy AVX)
Corona 1.4	Version 1.4
Row 15 - Cell 0	Custom benchmark
7-Zip	Version 21.03-beta
Row 17 - Cell 0	Integrated benchmark (Command Line)
Game Tests and Settings	Row 18 - Cell 1
Far Cry 6	Ultra Preset - 1920 x 1080, HD Textures ON
F1 2022	Ultra Preset - 1920 x 1080, Ultra High (default) Bahrain (Clear/Dry), FPS Counter ON