Asus P7P55D Premium Motherboard

Benchmarking

With the benchmarking I mainly wanted to see the performance gain of using Asus’s OC Tuner Utility which provided a 39% overclock of the CPU and a 17% overclock on the RAM. HD benchmarks where provided during our review of the Segate barracuda XT 2TB drive which can be found here.

All benchmarks were run on a stock i5 and on an overclocked i5 which is clocked to 3.71 using Asus’s OC Tuner Utility.

SiSoftware Sandra

SiSoftware Sandra is a software suite that has laser precise in targeting individual functions of a system for benchmarking I chose several system specific tasks to take a look at the performance when compared to similarly powerful systems

SiSoftware Sandra – Memory Bandwidth– How your memory sub-systems compare to other computers in terms of bandwidth

Analysis:

As you can see overclocking the processor results in a significant corresponding boost in memory bandwidth.  Our overclocked system moves from a near tie between 3rd, 4th, and 5th place to a 2nd place position with a healthy lead.

SiSoftware Sandra – Cache and Memory – How your processor’s cache and memory sub-systems compare to other computers in terms of access. This is a good showing of how well  your system performs with applications that can load completely into memory, in modern systems utilizing 3+Gbs of ram this will be a majority of your applications

Before Overclock

With Overclock

SiSoftware Sandra – Cryptography – How well the system handles encryption, decryption, hashing, signing…ect. This is benchmark is a good showing of how well your system handles high processor usage and memory intensive applications it is a good showing of a system under heavy load.

SiSoftware Sandra – .NET Multi-Media – How well the system handles multi-media operations through .NET. More and more applications are taking advantage of .NET because it makes it easier to write applications this works very similar to java in that it relays commands as a sudo virtual environment. While not a common benchmark it is a highly used environment for applications and shows a respectable speed increase with relatively minor overclocking.

Furmark

Furmark is an OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card and the throughput between the RAM and the graphics card.

A lot of current games utilize OpenGL as do a lot of older games. The other benifit to this benchmark is that Linux currently does not have support for Microsoft Direct X as such Linux gamers require OpenGL

FurMark @ 1680×1050 ( Full screen )

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