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- Date:
- Tuesday , June 15, 2010
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
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ASUS P6X58D Premium Motherboard Review
ASUS has taken its new Intel X58 chipset based motherboard to the next level, integrating support for Intel's Core i7 six core processors, SATA 6Gbps drive support, and USB 3.0 support. Just how well will this board fare in this overly competitive market space?
Gaming Benchmarks
As always, these benchmarks in no way represent real-world gameplay. They are all run at very low resolutions to try our best to remove the video card as a bottleneck. I will not hesitate to say that anyone spouting these types of framerate measurements as a true measuring tool in today’s climate is not servicing your needs or telling you the real truth.
The gaming tests below have been put together to focus on the processor power exhibited by each system. All the tests below consist of custom time demos built with stressing the CPU in mind. So much specialized coding comes into the programming now a days we suggest that looking at gaming performance by using real-world gameplay is the only sure way to know what you are going to get with a specific game. Our Real World Gameplay CPU Scaling would be a great place to start.
Graphs are labeled as follows: Motherboard - CPU Type & Clock Speed - Memory Speed
Lost Planet
While this benchmark is one of the few heavily threaded and optimized game engines around, we are finding limitations even with it. While Lost Planet would see the 12 threads on our 980X processor, it would only allow us to utilize 8. Still we do see a bit of an increase from this as well so I would suggest the two extra cores are pulling some load or HyperThreading is doing a hell of a job.
Call of Juarez
Given the GPU bound nature of this test, the Call of Juarez gaming benchmark remains a good indicator of overall system health and performance, with similar performance between systems being crucial.
As anticipated, the P6X58D Premium matched performance with the other boards, signifying that all is working harmoniously with the board's internals.
Quake 4 v1.4.2
Quake 4 represents one of the first threaded benchmarks we ever saw so it is not surprising that it is not able to scale well across the new 6 Core processor very well. Keep in mind we do have a MHz bump here as well.
Crysis
More of the same with Crysis.
FarCry 2
This was the anomaly in all our testing, and it seems to be within the margin of error we have seen on other tests with the 980X.
Overall, we think the motherboard is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing.