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.
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Bottomline: Overall, the Asus P5Q Pro is a powerful and
power efficient motherboard.