ASUS made really a good lead on the technology that Intel just recently released n the middle of the 2009, with their P55 chipsets and also the corei5 and the LGA1156 variants of the corei7 processors. But let’s go back to the old P45 series from Intel. To our surprise, that there are still new product of the P45 still coming out of the works in ASUS.
Well for starters, ASUS has already introduced a new Xtreme design in the motherboard features, with the inclusion of a 2.oz copper lining in the PCB design a change in the version of the use of PMW, chokes and solid state capacitors. Even to add some of the software part so of the new Xtreme series, like the turboV and precious tweaker 2 dedicated to make over-clocking to find the optimum potential of your core just a little more convenient.
Well the P5Q pro turbo is a newer version of the cheaper mainstream P45 P5Q pro but still retaining its more physical form and layout, the only new features added are the better copper layout and software and hardware tweaks in over-clocking. Well, to set to say that the new P5Q pro is the new standard of over-clocking, in a more reasonable prize, just about $124US in an online shop or in some other store that you can find. In the new P5Q pro turbo, in a still chocolate PCB colour has the same passive cooling kits in the north south and the CPU power regulators, as well as the rest of the I/O ports and also the connectors that make all of the loud noise and whistles. As I said earlier in the review is that he P5Q pro and the pro turbo has not such a real difference in the productivity and its usability.
But for the sudden difference however in the price and additional features makes it an attractive upgrade, if you want to have the same performance of the P5Q pro from previews with some over-clocking potential. With crossfire support and also an 8GB DDR2 memory support of 1300MHz frequency, with some support of optical fibre in the I/O or just enough headers for onboard fans running in the enclosed case is surely enough to handle in the new P5Q pro turbo.
So for the performance stakes of the new P5Q pro turbo, we added in a Q9450 processor a 4 GB dual DIMM memory, an ATi radeon 4890 1 GB and a good cooler, preferably the Thermalright brand. In the benchmarking role in both synthesis and world based software, well we find that SISoftwaresadra posed the whole system is about right in the core 2 performance just above the lower end quad and high dual core frequency processors and certainly faster over AMD, but still lacking latency performances in the memory tests.
Gaming and the rest of the apps show a pretty standard outlook at the P5Q pro turbo, but the over-clocking settings makes it much easier and improved gaming and world benchmarks overall. In the mean time the corei5 and the corei7 processors look to be a better generation that the dated core 2, but in the prizes of the core 2 are in their all time low, it is not bad to have a bang for buck system out of Intel with some few considerations need to overcome.