Already several years old, we have yet to build a system that can overcome Crysis’ system demands at 2560x1600 and 8x anti-aliasing (AA). That makes this outdated game a solid benchmark application.


Asus and MSI have similar base clocks at 133.7 MHz, yet MSI falls to the bottom of our Crysis comparison at the CPU-dependent lower resolutions. This could be a system overhead issue or it could be caused by differences in the automatic configuration of advanced memory timings between different motherboard brands.


The motherboard with the slowest CPU base clock of 133.2 MHz, EVGA’s P55 Classified 200 still climbs to the top of the charts in Far Cry 2. Meanwhile, MSI’s Trinergy begins to set a trend by being around 2% slower than its competitors thus far.
- Nothing But The Best?
- On-Board Features Comparison
- Asus Maximus III Formula
- Asus P7P55D-E Premium
- EVGA P55 Classified 200
- MSI Big Bang Trinergy
- Test Settings
- Benchmark Results: Crysis And Far Cry 2
- Benchmark Results: Clear Sky And World In Conflict
- Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Overclocking
- Power, Heat, And Efficiency
- Conclusion
Whyle this is why the EVGA and MSI are expensive.
I wouldn't be surprised if the MSI P55-GD80 performs better with 1 VGA card then its expensive brother.