Asus P5Q Deluxe - P45 Chipset with DDR2

Name: Asus P5Q Deluxe - P45 Chipset with DDR2 - Page 4
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 05:00 PM EDT

We ran the Asus P5Q Deluxe, as well as a trio of competing platforms, through Futuremark’s latest system performance metric built especially for Windows Vista, PCMark Vantage. PCMark Vantage runs through a host of different usage scenarios to simulate different types of workloads, including High Definition TV and movie playback and manipulation, gaming, image editing and manipulation, music compression, communications, and productivity. Most of the tests are multi-threaded as well, so the tests can exploit the additional resources offered by a quad-core CPU.

Futuremark PCMark Vantage

Simulated Application Performance

PCMark Vantage seems to contradict the SiSoft SANDRA results. Here, the P45-based Asus P5Q Deluxe is marginally faster than the X48, regardless of whether or not DDR2 or DDR3 memory was used. In the PCMark and Communication test suites in particular, the P5Q Deluxe finished a few percentage points ahead of the X48. although it did trail the DDR3 equipped board by a but in the productivity and music tests.

Tags: Asus, P45, DDR, DDR2, Chipset, Chip, P5Q, chips, P4, IPS, UX, IP

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com