ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition Motherboard Review

3D Performance: Quake 4

We upgraded Quake 4 to version 1.3 and ran its multiplayer demo id_demo001 at 1024x768x32 with image quality settings configured at “low” four times. The first result was always discarded, and from the other three values, we discarded the highest and the lowest score, i.e., we used the middle value for our comparison. You can see the results below.

With our memories configured at 800 MHz, ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition achieved an overall performance similar to ASUS P5B (Intel P965), MSI P35 Platinum (Intel P35) and Intel D975XBX2 (Intel 975X) – DDR2-800, all with their memories also running at 800 MHz. Under this scenario the reviewed board was 3.78% faster than ECS PN2 SLI2+ (nForce 680i), 5.62% faster than ECS NF650iSLIT-A (nForce 650i), 5.71% faster than MSI P35 Neo Combo (Intel P35) and 6.76% faster than ASUS P5N-E SLI (nForce 650i).

When we set our memories to run at 1,066 MHz, ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition achieved an overall performance similar to MSI P35 Platinum (Intel P35), ASUS P5B Premium (Intel P965) and  ASUS P5B (Intel P965), all with their memories also running at 1,066 MHz. Under this scenario the reviewed board was 5.98% faster than ECS PN2 SLI2+ (nForce 680i).