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The highest score came from the Asus Blitz Formula, which however had a lower CPU index score than the other two tested boards. On the bright side, the Gigabyte EP35-DS4 had the highest CPU index score with 3835 points.

The Crysis CPU benchmark gave exactly the same score for all three tested motherboards.

With Unreal Tournament 3 demo, we saw some small performance gains by using the Asus Maximus Formula.