ASUS P5Q PRO P45 Motherboard Review

Gaming Benchmarks


Futuremark 3DMark 06

We used the venerable 3DMark 06 because it is less GPU-bound than Vantage, and thus a better indicator of overall system performance.


Here we have a more than 25% performance improvement, which suggests that our GeForce 8800GT 512MB was being bottlenecked by the stock CPU speeds.


Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

This test consists of actual gameplay using a single mission (Authie: Boudica's Boys from the British Campaign) since it holds a bit of everything the game has to offer: vehicle battles, artillery barrages and house-to-house fighting. We recorded framerates using FRAPS up until the 15 minute mark of the mission and excluding any in-game briefings / cutscenes. The game was run in DirectX 9 mode at 1680x1050 with all detail levels set to high.


Although COH: OP can be quite graphically intensive, the extra CPU Mhz do provide a substantial performance boost as demonstrated by the more than 20% gain achieved with our overclocking settings.


Team Fortress 2

As our last gaming benchmark, we will use the addictive and CPU limited Team Fortress 2. For this test, we made an action-packed 30-minute timedemo on the “2_Fort” map with a constant 20-24 player load. This test represents a worst-case scenario because it is a small map with a high number of players on the screen at all times, placing a very heavy load on the CPU. The resolution was set to 1680x1050 with all settings on high.


The Source engine is well-known for having excellent CPU scalability, and TF2 is known for being CPU intensive, and both these facts are absolutely evident in our results. Because of the heavy load, our stock clocked CPU becomes a huge performance bottleneck. However, with the overclocked settings, performance nearly doubles, and the fast-paced FPS experience becomes much more fluid.