ASUS P8P67 Motherboard Review
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX10 performance of your graphics card. As it is a DX10-only benchmark, it only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. 3DMark Vantage is composed of four full-bore benchmarking tests (2 CPU tests and 2 GPU tests) and 6 feature tests. This test makes good use of multi-core CPUs and can even use Nvidia’s PhysX technology on its GeForce line-up of video cards.
Another phase of the testing begins here and we see that the overclocked Core 2 Quad gains significant ground. 3D graphics output is mainly dependent on the video card. However, testing at low resolutions eases the pressure on the GPU while increasing it on the CPU; hence, a better test for this scenario.
In the 3DMark Vantage benchmark, we see that the stock Q9550S/X48 setup really lags behind the competition. However, when clocked higher, we see a more balanced comparison. The i7/P67 actually loses this round to the older setup.
Love the EFI bios!
Why such dramatic differences with certain games? Sometimes this new P67 board wins by nearly 100% over the older Core2 Q9550 platform, but the older platform wins by even larger margins in older games?!?
An interesting find, thanks Leon Hyman. It’s baffling and also a bit disappointing.
WTH happened with 2600k in several gaming tests??
I presume it’s not MSI, so what’s happening with Intel chipsets lately?
I meant it’s not ASUS’s fault xD