Asus P5B-E Review - PAGE 12

Overclocking

I spent far too much time trying overclocking experiments on this board.

Why?

Because it is amazingly good at overclocking.

Here are the overclocking charts, comparing the Asus P5B-E against the overclocking results from the previous Core 2 Duo motherboard reviews such as the Abit AB9 Pro, Abit AW9D Max, Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, MSI P965 Platinum, MSI 975X Platinum, and the  FoxConn 975X7AB.Please note, not all motherboards have all the results, as we only ran the full test suite on the best overclocking boards.

In Business Winstone, we see that for business applications processor speed matters more than FSB - as the results are strictly ranked according to CPU speed.

For Content Creation, we get a repeat performance, however note how little difference 160MHz makes between the top two results.

For RightMark read bandwidth, low latency and high bus speed is not enough - you also need the processor power to crunch all that data; so the overall winner was the Asus P5W DH Deluxe running at 3.64GHz - however you can see that the Asus P5B-E did quite well especially with a 500MHz FSB as it was using the less memory optimized 965P chipset.

For RightMark Write Bandwidth, the Asus P5B-E blew away all the other boards when running with a 500MHz FSB. It was not even close!

As we would expect, RightMark Latency is dominated by the best 975X based boards, however the P5B did not do too badly.

The high FSB result allowed the Asus P5B-E to dominate the RightMark Bandwidth benchmark even with the 5-5-5-15 memory timing it needed at 1000MHz.