Asus P8Z77-V LX (Z77) Motherboard Review

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest offering from Futuremark, taking full advantage of DirectX 11 by utilising tessellation features and volumetric lighting. It takes your graphics and CPU hardware to the edge to simulate the most extreme conditions whilst working as a stand point to compare results with other users online.

Moving on to our game related benchmark tests, we find the P8Z77-V LX giving a solid result across both presets, though slightly lower than the other boards we tested, but for a budget board, it’s still competative.

Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is a first-person shooter game based in the Russian metro system. Metro 2033 is very similar to the much loved game STALKER as it is developed by the same programmers. The game utilises DirectX 11 and relies heavily on tessellation features and is considered to be one of the most graphics intense games on the market.

Metro 2033 showed that at 1920×1080, our result was on the higher-end of the scale. With 1680×1050, a solid 73FPS is seen, and with an overclock to 4.6GHz we see the framerate marginally increase by 1FPS.