Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to overview our test system and thank those sponsors who kindly provided us with test equipment to make our work possible. We offer our thanks to:
Intel for supplying us with a Core i7 4770K processor, which we reviewed here and the Core i7 4790K processor, which we reviewed here.
AMD for supplying us with an FX-8350 processor, which we reviewed here, the A8-3870K, the A10-5800K, which we reviewed here, the A10-6800K, which we reviewed here, the A10-7850K, which we reviewed here and the A10-7800.
ASUS for supplying us with an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3+ motherboard, which we reviewed here, an ASUS F1A75-M PRO, which we reviewed here, an ASUS A88X-PRO, which we reviewed here, and an Maximus VII Ranger Z97 Motherboard, which we reviewed here.
Kingston for supplying us with a Hyper X 3K 240GB solid state drive, which we reviewed here, and the HyperX Fury 8GB 1866MHz memory kit, which we reviewed here.
Corsair for supplying us with a Hydro Series H100i liquid CPU cooler, which we reviewed here.
Be Quiet for supplying us with a Straight Power E9 680W power supply unit, which we reviewed here.
Sapphire for supplying us with an AMD R9 290 Tri-X graphics card, which we reviewed here.
Lian Li for supplying us with a PC-T60A test bench.
Noctua for supplying us with NT-H1 thermal compound.
Test System
Test Software
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