ASRock P55 Deluxe LGA 1156 ATX Motherboard Review

Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used

We matched the ASRock P55 Deluxe against some heavy hitters from Gigabyte, ASUS, and eVGA. The three boards we pitted it against were the Gigabyte P55-UD6, ASUS Maximus III Gene, and eVGA P55 FTW. Testing this board against micro ATX and full ATX motherboards that utilize the LGA 1156 socket should give our readers a general overview of this board’s performance against other solutions in its class. The only aspect we were not able to test on the P55 Deluxe was its SATA 6GB/s capabilities. I am in the process of upgrading my test bench with this new spec, but in the mean time, you can read more information about the SATA 6GB/s performance from several articles our storage editor Allyn has written since SATA 6GB/s was introduced.

CPU-Z screenshots

Our 64-bit test bench for LGA 1156 processors includes 4GBs of dual channel DDR3 memory, a GTS 250 512MB graphics card, and a Western Digital 320GB SATA 3GB/s hard drive for storage. This configuration is based off a typical mid-range users LGA 1156 system and focuses on evaluating the motherboard’s features and abilities and less on the rest of the hardware components.

Benchmarks used:
– SiSoft Sandra 2009 SP1
– CineBench 10 64-bit 
– Handbrake DVD compression
– 3DMark Vantage
– Crysis Warhead
– Far Cry 2
– PCMark Vantage