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We test this hugely demanding game at its most challenging settings, with all the detail options set to Very High and High anti-aliasing enabled. For the benchmark itself, we use a 60-second FRAPS run performed within our own custom time demo. As the benchmark is variable due to AI inconsistencies, tests are performed three times and the average result is used.

The Crosshair V wasn’t especially fast in our Media Benchmarks at its stock speed, recording a mediocre overall score of 1,383. However, it recorded the best performance in Arma II, with a minimum frame rate of 64fps. Its SATA speeds were excellent too; it recorded a read speed of 549MB/sec and a write speed of 467MB/sec – the former is just about the maximum we would expect to see from the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. The ASMedia 106x controller proved to be far less capable than the SB950 Southbridge, though, only managing a read speed of 404MB/sec and a write speed of 347MB/sec – no prizes for guessing the ports we recommend using if you own a SATA 6Gbps SSD.

Overclocking the Crosshair V was also a far more pleasant experience than it was with the equivalent ASRock and MSI motherboards we’ve tested. Annoyingly, it still wasn’t great at recovering from ambitious overclocks, and rarely managed this on its own, but it usually just needed a single press of the reset button to make it come alive again.