Asus P7P55D Deluxe Review

Testing Methods

With the exception of SiSoft Sandra and Lavalys Everest, all of our benchmarks use real applications that give you a great idea of how well a product fares when performing the tasks you're likely to want it for. We are also focusing a lot more of our time on evaluating the overclocking potential and stability of the motherboards (and platforms) using a stress test designed to highlight any of the potential weaknesses that the product may have.

That involves a gradually increasing amount of stress starting with Prime95 torture test on all cores and expanding to looping 3DMark06. This is to ensure that all parts of the system are stressed simultaneously over a period of time.

Most poorly engineered products fail within the first couple of hours, or even minutes, and along with the other test results this will allow us to make a conscious decision on whether a motherboard is worth your money.

Test Setup:

Motherboards:

• Asus P7P55 Deluxe (Intel P55, 0504 BIOS)
  
• MSI P55 GD65 (Intel P55, 1.41 BIOS)

Common Components:

• Intel Core i7 870 (45nm, 8MB L3 cache, 22x133MHz; 2.93GHz, Turbo Mode and Intel power saving states left at BIOS default settings. When overclocked, these were disabled)
  
• Stock: Corsair 4GB DDR3 1,600MHz C8 at motherboard SPD settings, Overclocked: G.Skill Perfect Storm 2,200MHz C8, custom timings
  
• Zotac GeForce GTX 260! AMP
  
• Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB Toxic
  
• PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750W PSU
  
• Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA hard drive
  
• Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
  
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2
  
• Intel inf 9.1.1.1013
  
• Nvidia Forceware 190.38 WHQL
  
• ATI Catalyst 9.7 WHQL