| ASUS P6X58D-E Motherboard Performance |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Motherboards | |
| Written by Olin Coles | |
| Thursday, 17 June 2010 | |
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EVEREST CPU BenchmarksLavalys EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC. All of the benchmarks used in our test bed: Queen, Photoworxx, ZLib, and AES, all rely on basic x86 instructions, and consume very low system memory while also being aware of HyperThreading, multi-processors, and multi-core processors. While the EVEREST CPU tests really only compare the processor performance more than it measures platforms, it still offers a glimpse into what kind of power each platform possesses.
Queen and Photoworxx tests are synthetic benchmarks that operate the function many times over and over-exaggerate by several magnitudes what the real-world performance would be like. The Queen benchmark focuses on the branch prediction capabilities and misprediction penalties of the CPU. It does this by finding possible solutions to the classic queen problem on a chessboard. At the same clock speed theoretically the processor with the shorter pipeline and smaller misprediction penalties will attain higher benchmark scores. Like the Queen benchmark, the Photoworxx tests for penalties against pipeline architecture. The synthetic Photoworxx benchmark stresses the integer arithmetic and multiplication execution units of the CPU and also the memory subsystem. Due to the fact that this test performs high memory read/write traffic, it cannot effectively scale in situations where more than two processing threads are used. The EVEREST Photoworxx benchmark performs the following tasks on a very large RGB image:
The Zip Library test measures combined CPU and memory subsystem performance through the public ZLib compression library. ZLib is designed as a free lossless data compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The ZLib data format is itself portable across platforms and has a footprint independent of input data that can be reduced at some cost in compression. The AES integer benchmark measures CPU performance using AES data encryption. It utilizes Vincent Rijmen, Antoon Bosselaers and Paulo Barreto's public domain C code in ECB mode and consumes 48 MB of memory.
The memory tests are included for illustration, since the system memory bandwidth offers a very minor impact on gaming performance and real-world experience. Nevertheless, it's evident from the results that not all motherboards respond to identical memory kits and settings in the same way. TEST SUMMARY: Since the exact same Intel Core i7-920 processor and memory was used for all tests it's not surprising to see similar results reported in each benchmark; which is why motherboard comparisons focus more on additional feature sets. Although the benchmark results were all extremely close, both the ASUS P6X58D-E and ASUS P6X58D-Premium edged out the other X58 motherboards in CPU Queen, PhotoWorxx, ZIP, and AES tests. The Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard delivered the best memory read, write, and copy performance, followed by the ASUS P6X58D-E and -Premium. The ASUS P6X58D motherboard series offered a decent 5% boost to CPU performance in Everest CPU benchmark tests while delivering average memory bandwidth, but this isn't the kind difference you'll notice anywhere but in the benchmark charts.
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the pcie bandwith used to support usb3 and sata 3 comes from the ICH10R southbridge, which support up to6 pcie links.
In this case x4 is used for bandwith for usb3 and sata3, and the remaining x2 are used as 2 x1 pcie connectors on the motherboard.
Meanwhile the northbridge supports 32 pcie links used for graphics.
In essence sata3 and usb 3 DOES NOT STEAL BANDWITH FROM GRAPHICS.
If the author of this article does not fix this serious lapse of knowledge in this review and the P6x58D review I WILL LOSE FAITH IN BENCHMARKREVIEWS.COM AND CEASE TO FREQUENT THIS SITE.
I agree, do not spread deceit and do not generalize. I agree with everyone that posted in response to your post. Got the facts, lay them out for us to see. As far as my 2 cents about the SATA bandwidth, I can provide links if need be or direct. Show us your hand........
I've got a solid midi tower with HDDs in internal enclosures. When running the P6X58D-E with a i7 930 I hear a high pitch whistleing noise. Similar to distortion in speakers - but none are connected. It's definitely the motherboard, I tried 3(!) P6X58D-E which had all the same noise. It's not very loud but quite annoying if you're sitting in a quiet office.
I eventually could fix it by disabeling the C1E support which means the motherboard is always in full throttle mode but that's not acceptable for me at that price! So if you want a quiet board, look somewhere else.
Cheers.
When I load up CoreTemp and CPUZ, CoreTemp will tell me what multiplier it's currently running at while it's making the noise, but CPUZ stays locked at one multiplier. I'm not sure why it doesn't fluctuate. It does for the older laptop.
As Steve said, I disabled the C1E and Speedstep and that did stop the noise, but yeah, this will drive me crazy. Needless to say if a client heard this noise. Ugh.
Thanks for posting this info gang. You helped the future!
I think some people are talking about a physical noise rather than one that comes from their speaker.
cheers,
Mark.
I tried 2 different PSUs (the Antec Earthwatts 500W I got with my Sonata III case and a Corsair TX650 I replaced it with) but it was still squealing away horrendously, even during idle.
(Tip: I made sure it was PSU by rolling up a sheet of paper into a tube, putting it in my ear and then then listening close up to the mobo, PSU and other parts. Great trick for isolating the source of such noises!)
Then I read about how somebody disabling C1E stopped squealing, and it worked for me. I like my PC to run 100% power ;)
All C states, turbo, and other bios tweaks have been done, core parking has been done, noise still present.
Thanks to anyone who offers any words of advice.
I use the EPU-6 Engine program and have to set it to 'Max Power Saving Mode' or 'Medium Power Saving Mode', otherwise I get this horrible high pitch whistleing noise and can't work peacefully any more in the same room as my pc. Jesus, what a depressing thing to discover after spending quite a lot of money on this computer.
Bios > Advanced > CPU Configuration > C1E Support
reading a few more posts, it seems the noise being talked about here is a physical noise from some component on the mobo. The noise I have been very concerned about is only audible if I plug in my speakers, and the horrid high pitched sound is there regardless of whether I use my (crappy) onboard audio or my brand new USB IO device... so there is something screwed that is giving this noise to sound output on the motherboard.
GRRRR!!!!! I just bought the USB IO to overcome this noise issue!
I found it is a little loud but it a good trade off for how multi use the system is..
I am a web designer and use lots active programs at the same time, that tends to grind my older computers but i find it very smooth. and the gaming ability is top as well
I found the cooling system to be my only issue ( I live in tropical area, very hot / humid )