PCMark04 and 05 are application-based benchmarks and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark05 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark05 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.

Both PCMark04 and PCMark05 include 5 categorized suites for benchmarking your computer. These include System, CPU, Graphics, Memory and a Hard Disk Drive benchmark. In our case, we selected the system test suite which integrates tests included in the other categories.

A slightly better performance for the ASUS motherboard in both PCM04 and PCM05 benchmarks. Taking a closer, more analytical look at the PCM05 tests should reveal where the differences lie:

In most tests, the ASUS motherboard shows slightly better performance, which explains the slightly higher score. However, there are also cases (e.g. XP Startup, HDD General Use) where the Foxconn is better.