Testing – Benchmarks
Next to check out the performance and stability of the Asus P7H55D-M I ran a series of benchmarks both at stock clock and my overclock. With the i5 661 being a dual-core processor, I really didn’t know what to compare it to, so I chose to display the numbers from the AMD Phenom II X3 720. An interesting touch is that these numbers were attained on another Asus EVO series motherboard the M4A785TD-V EVO. I will only be using CPU related benchmarks for the AMD’s numbers as I had a GTX 260 for the video card.
Intel Core processors always do well with SuperPi, and the LGA 1366/LGA 1156 processors do very well. But I must admit, this was really a surprise. The overclock time is .8 seconds better than my LGA 1366 i7 with a 40% overclock, and only a second slower than the fastest time I have ever gotten.
The numbers were about as I had expected, the i5 did perform better than the Phenom X3, most tests significantly better. Keep in mind that the Phenom has an extra core. The OpenGL test on Cinebench10 probably was affected by the VGA. The overclock really gave us a performance increase.
I didn’t have the Phenom’s numbers for Sandra Memory Bandwidth. I was running the memory at DDR3-1066, so I expected the bandwidth to be a little low. My LGA 1156 i7 usually has a memory bandwidth in the 16-17GB/s range, so this may be very low.
Over the past two months I’ve been pursuing a problem w/ASUS…
BEWARE: if you get a case that has an eSATA front port and you connect it to an internal motherboard [Intel H55 and maybe others] SATA port, it cannot be configured to have an eSATA hard drive ‘safely removed’. You will have to turn off caching (slow) or risk data corruption when removing it.
ASUS customer service is terrible and it will further adversely affect their bottom line because they are ruining their reputation. …So much for their “goal of 100% customer satisfaction”.
They ½-answer submitted technical inquiries to show they care, even though it is obvious they do not want to get to the root of or appropriately solve a problem system builders may be encountering and finding annoying. They do not seem to know Windows very well nor comprehend the underlying problem, nor do they spend any measurable time even reading the history of the problem, trying to determine where the problem really lies. They defer simple system builders to Microsoft $upport when it is clearly not a Microsoft problem. Concurrently they defer to Intel support (the maker of the chip/driver likely causing this problem and a company not selling chips to/supporting end-users) – when ASUS should be contacting Intel themselves, as an integration partner, to resolve issues such as this.
Over the past two months I’ve been pursuing a problem w/ASUS…
BEWARE: if you get a case that has an eSATA front port and you connect it to an internal motherboard [Intel H55 and maybe others] SATA port, it cannot be configured to have an eSATA hard drive ‘safely removed’. You will have to turn off caching (slow) or risk data corruption when removing it.
ASUS customer service is terrible and it will further adversely affect their bottom line because they are ruining their reputation. …So much for their “goal of 100% customer satisfaction”.
They ½-answer submitted technical inquiries to show they care, even though it is obvious they do not want to get to the root of or appropriately solve a problem system builders may be encountering and finding annoying. They do not seem to know Windows very well nor comprehend the underlying problem, nor do they spend any measurable time even reading the history of the problem, trying to determine where the problem really lies. They defer simple system builders to Microsoft $upport when it is clearly not a Microsoft problem. Concurrently they defer to Intel support (the maker of the chip/driver likely causing this problem and a company not selling chips to/supporting end-users) – when ASUS should be contacting Intel themselves, as an integration partner, to resolve issues such as this.