Asus P5Q Pro Motherboard

Assembling a PC that's easy on energy consumption requires components that

would do the same and the P5Q Pro motherboard is one such component. It comes

with an Energy Processing Unit, which makes the machine use power in an

efficient and judicial way resulting in reduced electricity bills. When we

tested the power consumption of a PC, based on the P5Q Pro, it consumed 40 watts

lower powers than standard motherboard   running with a

similar setup. That's a lot of savings! But, does saving the planet come at the

cost of reduced performance? No. We found that in most of the benchmarks, the

Asus P5Q Pro was able to score better than other motherboards in the same price

range. To test the motherboard, we used a Core 2 Quad processor running at

2.66GHz along with 1GB RAM and a TAGAN 1300Watt SMPS. In PC Mark 05, the P5Q Pro

scored 8077, whereas 8168 in 3D Mark 06. The render average in POV— ray was

58525 pps. The Cinebench scores were high as well at 2720 and 9490 for single

and four cores respectively.

The features on this motherboard include 6 x SATA 3Gb/s, PCIe Gb LAN

controller, Max. 12 USB2.0/1.1 ports(6 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back

panel), 8-channel Audio I/O, 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots and 4 x DIMM, for

max. 16GB DDR2 RAM.

Bottomline: Overall, the Asus P5Q Pro is a powerful and

power efficient motherboard.