- Everest Ultimate Edition

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is a system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the 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.

The software has build-in several tests for memory and CPU/FPU.

Asus P5Q Deluxe performed very well and got the first place at the Memory Copy test. In the other two tests the motherboard was slightly faster than the Gigabyte EP45-DS3R.

The FPU and CPU tests did not reveal any clear winner here, with all motherboards giving almost the same results. Compared with the Gigabyte EP45-DS2R, the Asus P5Q Deluxe had a minor lead but still, these differences in the performance are negligible

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It provides most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc. Sisoft Sandra also offers a variety of tests for Memory and CPU.

The Sisoft Sandra results gave a small lead to the Asus P5Q Deluxe over the Gigabyte's P45 solution.