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PCMark Vantage:
PCMark resembles a lot to the 3DMark suite from FutureMark, except the fact that it includes many other tests like hard drive speed, memory and processor power, so it is considered as a system benchmark and not just a gaming benchmark.
At stock the MSI board comes out with the highest level performance, but once overclocked the scores were again tipped in ASUS' favor.
Crysis Warhead:
Crysis Warhead is a standalone expansion pack of the original Crysis, at that time well known for requiring the most powerful hardware to play at maxed settings. It uses an enhanced version of the same engine.
In Crysis Warhead all of the tested motherboards had excellent in-game performance. Overclocking the system did help to achieve a few additional frames-per-second, but ultimately the gains were minimal.
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Mike
I read the Sandy Bridge CPU roundup also. Very impressive numbers. I had a liquid-cooled i5 OC'd to almost 5GHz so I imagine that these boards will allow a new liquid-cooled i7 to do it easily. And looks like retail pricing will be competitive to AMD's high-end offerings.
Very nice reviews. I will go with ASUS board.
Can't wait