Asus P7H57D-V EVO Motherboard

CPU Testing

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC.

PhotoWorxx as the name may suggest tests processors by means of invoking functions that are common to Photo Manipulation including Fill, Flip, Crop, Rotate, Difference and Colour to B&W conversion.

CPU Queen is based on branch prediction and the misprediction penalties that are involved.

This is an integer based benchmark that will test the CPU and Memory by means of the CPU ZLib compression library.

WinRAR's embedded Benchmark focuses on the processor's File Compression capability.

Some interesting results here. In some cases, our heavily overclocked Core i3 530 @ 4.10GHz was holding it's own against the native quad core i5 750. When one considers that this processor is priced lower than the outgoing Core 2 Duo E8400, it's clear that we're seeing some progress. That said, the Core i5 750 appears to be representing better value for money...