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ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition (Intel P965)

By Zachary Chan - 25 Aug 2006

Test Setup

Test Setup

As a high-end motherboard, we will be testing the ASUS P5B Deluxe with Gigabyte's GA-965P-DQ6. ASUS' own P5W DH Deluxe will also be brought into the picture to see how the P5B Deluxe fares in direct competition with the Intel 975X Express. The test bed configuration used for all three boards are identical for scoring consistency. The test setup can be viewed below:

  • Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 processor (3.46GHz, dual-core, 1066MHz FSB)
  • 2 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 @ 12-4-4 CAS 4.0
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
  • MSI GeForce 7900 GT 256MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 91.31
  • Intel INF 8.0.1.1022 and ICH7R AHCI 6.0.0.1022 driver set
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (and DirectX 9.0c)


Additional Notes

  • The current retail P5B Deluxe BIOS (rev 0405) may have memory compatibility issues with certain Kingston HyperX models causing operating instability. This seems to stem from tighter timings that ASUS uses on their boards, but can be easily circumvented by setting the DRAM TRFC option in the BIOS to a value of 35 and above. The current beta BIOS (rev 0507) that we are using for this review already has the workaround for this issue built-in.


Benchmarks

The following benchmarks will be used for this review:

  • BAPco SYSmark 2004
  • Futuremark PCMark05
  • SPECviewperf 8.01
  • Futuremark 3DMark05
  • AquaMark3
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