ASUS P5Q PRO P45 Motherboard Review

by MAC     |     July 28, 2008

Memory Benchmarks


Everest Ultimate v4.50

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all benchmarkers or overclockers. With the ability to pick up most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms on your desktop. In addition to this, the memory benchmarking utility provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system.



As you can see going from the stock configuration to our overclocked settings has led to considerable improvements in all three areas of memory bandwidth. This is expected though, since we increased core clocks from a tepid 2.13Ghz to 3.6Ghz for the CPU and from 800Mhz up to 1200Mhz for the memory.



Here we see an over 40% drop in latency, which is a tremendous achievement. Likewise, any figure in the low 50’s is considered a very respectable result.


ScienceMark v2.0

Although last updated almost 3 years ago, ScienceMark v2.0 remains a favorite for accurately calculating bandwidth on even the newest chipsets.



As with Everest, we see a monumental 64% bandwidth increase going from the stock to overclocked settings. Clearly, the memory sub-system is doing a good job of turning the increased frequencies into raw MB/s.
 
 
 

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