Test setup
An expensive but a very effective motherboard. Thus, the high purchase price of the Maximus Z690 Hero can be gradually returned in lower operating costs after fine-tuning. First and foremost, however, it is a proper support for the most powerful processors, which can be safely overclocked well beyond the capabilities of the most powerful coolers. The board also comes with an SSD expansion card, unusually.
Test setup
| Testovacia konfigurácia | |
| Chladič CPU | Noctua NH-U14S@12 V |
| Teplovodivá pasta | Noctua NT-H2 |
| Základná doska * | MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 (BIOS 7D32v11) |
| Pamäte (RAM) | Patriot Blackout, 4× 8 GB, 3600 MHz/CL18 |
| Grafická karta | MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio, Resizable BAR off |
| SSD | 2× Patriot Viper VPN100 (512 GB + 2 TB) |
| Napájací zdroj | BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 12 (1200 W) |
Note: Graphics drivers used at the time of testing: Nvidia GeForce 466.77 and OS Windows 10 build 19043
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- Contents
- Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero in detail
- What it looks like in BIOS
- Methodology: Performance tests
- Methodology: How we measure power draw
- Methodology: Temperature and frequency measurements
- Test setup
- 3DMark
- Borderlands 3
- F1 2020
- Metro Exodus
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Total War Saga: Troy
- PCMark and Geekbench
- Web performance
- 3D rendering: Cinebench, Blender, ...
- Video 1/2: Adobe Premiere Pro
- Video 2/2: DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Graphics effects: Adobe After Effects
- Video encoding
- Audio encoding
- Photos: Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo, ...
- (De)compression
- (De)cryption
- Numerical computing
- Simulations
- Memory and cache tests
- M.2 (SSD) slots speed
- USB ports speed
- Ethernet speed
- Power draw curve (EPS + ATX connector) w/o power limits
- Vývoj spotreby (EPS + ATX konektor) s limitmi napájania podľa Intelu
- Total power draw (EPS + ATX connector)
- Achieved CPU clock speed
- CPU temperatures
- VRM temperatures – thermovision of Vcore and SOC
- SSD temperatures
- Chipset temperatures (south bridge)
- Conclusion
