GIGABYTE GA-6PXSV3 Review
by Ian Cutress on March 31, 2014 11:59 AM EST- Posted in
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Gaming Benchmarks
F1 2013
First up is F1 2013 by Codemasters. I am a big Formula 1 fan in my spare time, and nothing makes me happier than carving up the field in a Caterham, waving to the Red Bulls as I drive by (because I play on easy and take shortcuts). F1 2013 uses the EGO Engine, and like other Codemasters games ends up being very playable on old hardware quite easily. In order to beef up the benchmark a bit, we devised the following scenario for the benchmark mode: one lap of Spa-Francorchamps in the heavy wet, the benchmark follows Jenson Button in the McLaren who starts on the grid in 22nd place, with the field made up of 11 Williams cars, 5 Marussia and 5 Caterham in that order. This puts emphasis on the CPU to handle the AI in the wet, and allows for a good amount of overtaking during the automated benchmark. We test at 1920x1080 on Ultra graphical settings.
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Bioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite was Zero Punctuation’s Game of the Year for 2013, uses the Unreal Engine 3, and is designed to scale with both cores and graphical prowess. We test the benchmark using the Adrenaline benchmark tool and the Xtreme (1920x1080, Maximum) performance setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
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Tomb Raider
The next benchmark in our test is Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is an AMD optimized game, lauded for its use of TressFX creating dynamic hair to increase the immersion in game. Tomb Raider uses a modified version of the Crystal Engine, and enjoys raw horsepower. We test the benchmark using the Adrenaline benchmark tool and the Xtreme (1920x1080, Maximum) performance setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
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mooninite - Monday, March 31, 2014 - link
I wouldn't recommend this board since it includes 82574L NICs that have known hardware errata that I have suffered myself. They are also quite old now (3+ years). Any new server board will include I350-based NICs and these seem to be rock solid in my testing.extide - Monday, March 31, 2014 - link
Odd that they left the remaining 8 PCIe lanes un-used. It would have been a better idea to route them to that last PCIe slot, instead of that slot using 2 lanes from the chipset.TeXWiller - Monday, March 31, 2014 - link
Do you have any experience with the i210 series? That seems to be the new value choice after the 82574L.Samus - Monday, March 31, 2014 - link
its funny you mention that, I had HP replace a motherboard in one of my clients Pro 4300 SFF workstations and the new board had an i210, the old board had a Broadcom, so it seems people are moving toward the i210 on the newest hardware revisions.mooninite - Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - link
i210 would be fine. Anything except 82574L...Ktracho - Monday, March 31, 2014 - link
Any chance of getting a screen shot of the BIOS screen for Advanced/PCI Subsystem Settings? We are very interested in a motherboard that supports the latest NVIDIA Tesla / Xeon Phi boards (which the GA-7PESH3 motherboard support), but we have not been able to find specific information about this Gigabyte motherboard. The key would be for the BIOS screen to have a setting for "PCI 64bit Resources Handling"/"Above 4G Decoding". Can you confirm if this setting exists for the GA-6PXSV3? ASUS has a competing motherboard with a similar setting in the BIOS, but it does not meet our requirements.Ian Cutress - Monday, March 31, 2014 - link
It's in the gallery, third picture along.http://www.anandtech.com/Gallery/Album/3508#3
yuhong - Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - link
"The GIGABYTE BIOS may not be UEFI"It is UEFI, notice the UEFI shell item.
BMNify - Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - link
"GIGABYTE Server GA-6PXSV3 we are reviewing today is aiming to supply enough at the lower end of the extreme workstation segment."its hard to pick the April fool news as this cant be considered "the lower end of the extreme workstation segment." at 349€95 http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00140021.html surely, with only a single socket and not enough PCI-E slots to fill with a reasonable amount of fast PCI-E SSD's plus gfx cards....
toyotabedzrock - Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - link
I had a workstation board by supermicro in the slot 1 era of P2 and P3 and it's bios was very graphical and used a mouse. I don't understand why the bios interface went from that to an 80s era design and stayed there.