ECS X79R-AX Black Series Motherboard Review

By Dan Stoltz

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City PC Game

Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The game was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The PC and Onlive version was released on November 22, 2011.

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City uses the Unreal Engine 3 game engine with PhysX. For bencmark testing of Batman: Arkham City we disabled PhysX to keep it fair and ran the game in DirectX 11 mode with 8x MSAA enabled and all the image quality features cranked up. You can see all of the exact settings in the screen captures above.

Batman: Arkham City Benchmark Results
Benchmark Results: The ECS X79R-AX Black Extreme Intel X79 Motherboard took a slight lead over the ASUS R4E and the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7. At a resolution of 1280×1024 the ECS X79R-AX Black Extreme averaged 64 frames per second while our other boards averaged 63 frames per second. At 1920×1080 the ECS X79R-AX averaged 43.3 frames per second compared to the 43 frames per second on our other systems.

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