Gigabyte F2A88XN-Wifi Motherboard Review

Gigabyte F2A88XN-Wifi - A88X Chipset
AMD A10-6800K APU (4.1Ghz) Quad Core 2 x 64KB L2 Cache 2 x 2MB L3 Cache
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer
1x nVidia GTX 770
2x GSKill RipjawsX PC2133 4GB DDR3 (9-10-9-28)
Micron C300 128GB SSD
HP dvd1260i Multiformat 24x Writer
Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 1050 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1

Gigabyte G1 Killer Sniper A88X - A88X Chipset
AMD A10-6800K APU (4.1Ghz) Quad Core 2 x 64KB L2 Cache 2 x 2MB L3 Cache
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer
1x nVidia GTX 770
2x Corsair Dominator Platinum PC2133 8GB DDR3 (10-12-11-29)
Western Digital VelociRaptor 150gb SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 1050 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Our motherboard testing suite has been compiled to subject the system to a variety of different scenarios that help uncover some of the subtle differences in motherboard design.  Normally these differences are driven by the processor and BIOS programming but with the advent of an IMC and PCI Express moving to the CPU we have discovered that raw performance numbers are virtually identical across the systems.  

Our new approach is to look at total system performance and minimize the variances.  The results will tell us how the system responded as a total package and also give us something to use in our comparisons.