Biostar TZ77XE4 (Z77) Motherboard Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

Starting with Cinebench R11.5, we see that the Biostar board offers good performance straight out of the box. When overclocked to 4.6GHz, the CPU score was boosted up to 9.11, which is a bit low, but still a respectable score for an i7 3770k.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Moving over to Super PI,  we see a stock performance calculation time of 9.18 which is slightly better over some of the more extreme boards from other brands. When overclocked to 4.6GHz, we see the time shaved by a solid two minutes.