ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Review

Testing:

Office 2007 Excel Big Number Crunch: This test takes a 6.2MB MIcrosoft Excel speadsheet and performs about 28,000 sets of calculations, including many of the most commonly used calculations in Excel. The measure of this test is how long it takes to refresh the sheet.

Lower Is Better

POV Ray 3.7: This program features a built-in benchmark that renders an image using Ray Tracing. The latest versions offer support for SMP (Symetric MultiProcessing), enabling the workload to be spread across the cores for quicker completion.

Higher Is Better

PCMark Vantage x64 is used to measure complete system performance. We will be running a series of tests to gauge performance of each individual CPU to see which CPU, if any, rises above the others.

Again, we saw great performance from the P7P55D Deluxe. The overclock increased the performance in Excel by almost 50%. In POV Ray and PCMark Vantag,e the increases weren't as big, but they were still very significant.