ASRock P67 Extreme4 (Intel P67 Express) Motherboard Review

SISoft Sandra 2011 Benchmarks

As usual, we check out the CPU CLK that is running on the this board. A check using CPU-ID shows that it is running at 100.2MHz. The Biostar Th67XE runs at 100.2MHz, ASRock P67 Professional Fatal1TY runs at 100.2MHz while the ASUS P8P67Pro is at 100MHz on the dot. We included the benchmarks of ASRock P55 Deluxe running a Core i5 661 (3.33GHz) as a comparison of performance against the new 32nm processor Core i5 2500K running at 3.3GHz.

As we can see from the chart below, the P55 only achieves 11.81GB/s with the same 2x 2GB DDR3 memory module running at DDR3-1333 C7-8-7-20-1T whereas the P67 boards are running 2x2GB DDR3-1866 at C7-8-7-20-1T. The three P67 boards are able to achieve around 25 GB/s which is quite impressive. The result closes up the gap with intel x58 which scores 30GB/s in this test. The ASRock P67 Extreme memory performance is on par with the other P67 boards.

In the Processor Arithmetic test, the same CPU is tested on the different boards using the same RAM and timings. As we can see, with P1.40 BIOS, the P67 Extreme4 does slightly better than the rest.

In terms of multimedia, the performance is almost the same as the rest but leads the ASUS P8P67pro.

Transcoding wise, the ASRock P67 Extreme4 scores 796 points leading the pack with it’s tuned up BIOS.