Counter Strike: Source

This was a mini upgrade to one of the best selling games ever made. This should give us a good indication of mild gaming performance. It possible worthless to try to run Crisis or other games that stress the GPU; this motherboard clearly would not be capable to handle it at the lowest settings.

All the benchmarks show similar results. The overclocked setting shows a slight gain. This is not anything out of the blue here. I was not going to over-clock very far without instability and crashes. The built-in graphics processing unit is decent, but not great. You can get away with playing older games fine at medium settings and a lower resolution, but jacking up the resolution or detail will cause the games to slow to a crawl.

In WinRAR, we saw a large increase from the additional bandwidth around all the parts of the motherboard. I was really surprised by these results with such a small increase in speed. It shows that the hyperlink speed in this case is killing bandwidth.