Quote Originally Posted by youngpro View Post
hey mate,

nope my prelim performance testing is always done without touching anything in bios except making the 3 platforms frequency, uncore, qpi and memory frequency/timings identical... all other settings are left as default (except of course disabling some of the unrequired ethernet ports, c1, etc)

i want to get an idea of performance right out of the box to start with, then move on to tightening things up from there
So you enabled Microcode ignore option on the Sapphire and OC boards but not on the RIIIE, but then disabled it for the 3D runs on those same boards? That option is what allows you to drop the SuperPI times down to those results but then 3D will suffer if it is left enabled.

I assume you left PM settings alone as the setups between the boards (assume OC is similar to the UD9 in regards to BIOS setup). If those options are not the same between each board, then the tests are not truly apples to apples.