Asus P7P55D Premium Motherboard

CrystalMark

CrystalMark is very thorough about its testing of the abilities of the CPU and the throughput of the memory and motherboard chipset.  Crystal Mark is probably one of the most honest benchmarks as manufactures are not likely to have optimized for it. It is also an excellent choice for you the reader as it is free software that you can download and run on your system for comparison.

PCMark Vangtage

A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.

3DMark06

This benchmark will give us a good smattering of gaming performance.

As you can see overclocking this system produces a healthy boost in the 3DMark score. of course upon further inspection you can see that most of this boost comes from the CPU score while only small increases are seen in the shader 2.0 and 3.0 scores. Essentially this boils down to what we already know about 3D benchmarks which is that they are much more dependent upon your graphics card than your CPU. We do realize some small increases in the SM 2.0 and 3.0 scores due to an increase in the ability of the CPU to process and relay information within the system as well as the increase in bus speed.

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