Asus P5K3 Premium Motherboard

Friday, October 03, 2008

Asus P5K3 Premium supports the latest Intel Quad-core processors with LGA775 socket. The board is designed to support 8GB of dual-channel in-built DIMM 1066/800 architecture, 1333/1066/800 FSB (Front Side Bus), PCI Express X 16 graphics and multi-core CPUs. The Turbo D3 feature provides users with memory overclocking above DDR3 1500MHz.

We tested the board with 120 GB SATA 7200rpm HDD with Intel Quad Core 2.66 GHz Processor with 2 GB DDR3 1033 MHz RAM with XP SP2 OS.

The benchmarks we have used are 3D Mark for graphics performance, PC Mark and Pov-Ray and the scores were 7594, 5651, 64198 respectively. The score for BW was 49 which is very good.

In Cinebench 10, it gave 4640. Gaming performance was tested using UT3, Crysis and Company of Heroes. The scores obtained were 60 fps, 38 fps and 108 fps respectively. One important thing that keeps P5K3 apart from the rest of the P5K lineup is DDR3 support and the built-in system memory onto the board.

Bottomline : For gamers who always want to overclock, this board is the best for it has onboard memory that guarantees overclocking above DDR3 1500.

Mastufa Ahmed & Vijay Chauhan

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