PCMark Vantage
Next up we have that other big name in synthetic benchmarks, FutureMark. Their PCMark Vantage software, while offering no hard performance numbers, gives an aggregate score that can serve to rank a piece of hardware in the hierarchy of all machines this test has been run on. That said, here’s the score for our test system:
3DMark Vantage
While this one is far more GPU dependent, 3DMark Vantage can give some insight into how the CPU affects gaming performance:
Do you peferr Intel over AMD or vice versa. I peferr Intel still even though AMD is clearly starting to give them a run for their money. I don’t particularly like Asus boards. I had bad experiences with Asus in the past. I peferr MSI, Intel, and Gigabyte.