ASUS P5B Motherboard Review

Processing Performance

We measured processing performance using PCMark05 Professional program. PCMark05 Professional measures the system performance by running several tests. The System batch, which was the one we used, performs the following tests: HDD XP Startup, Physics and 3D, 2D Transparent Window, 3D Pixel Shader, Web Page Rendering, File Decryption, 2D Graphics Memory – 64 lines, HDD General Usage and three multithreading tests. The results are given in a PCMark05 specific unit.

All motherboards based on Intel P965 chipset achieved a similar performance on PCMark05 System batch. ASUS P5B was 3.84% faster than Intel D975XBX2 and 4.13% faster than Intel D975XBX when our memories were configured to run at 800 MHz, and 4.87% faster than Intel D975XBX2 and 5.16% faster than Intel D975XBX when our memories were configured to run at 1,066 MHz (on Intel motherboards the memories were always running at 800 MHz; it is also important to note that Intel 975X chipset does not officially support DDR2-800).