Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts

We tested the game using the 64-bit executable under and DirectX 10 with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom time demo recorded on the Harbour map which is more representative of gameplay than the built-in benchmark that renders things much faster than you're going to experience in game.

For our testing, we set all the settings to High. Because of how intense the game is, we tested with both anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering disabled at resolutions above 1,680 x 1,050 for the time being. There is currently no support for anisotropic filtering in the game, but you can still force it from the driver control panel.



Gaming performance in Crysis is pretty good, but not as great as the multimedia benchmarks on the previous page. At stock speeds the Asus H57 performance is consistent with the other Gigabyte H55/P55 boards, but the Biostar and Asus P55 microATX boards still command a slight lead. When overclocked the average frame rate is one of the lowest generated, however it's minimums are still higher than most leaving a marginally smoother experience.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Publisher: bitComposer Games
We ran the full S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark, with Tessellation enabled, took the average and



Stock performance in the latest DirectX 11 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark shows a clear lead for the Asus H57 board, however, here the overclocked minimums are a few FPS below the Gigabyte H55 board we tested recently. Overall, there's no consistent result in gaming for the Asus H57 motherboard.