Assembling a PC that's easy on energy consumption requires components that would do the same and the P5Q Pro motherboard is one such component. It comes with an Energy Processing Unit, which makes the machine use power in an efficient and judicial way resulting in reduced electricity bills. When we tested the power consumption of a PC, based on the P5Q Pro, it consumed 40 watts lower powers than standard motherboard (Gigabyte EP45 UD3P) running with a similar setup. That's a lot of savings! But, does saving the planet come at the cost of reduced performance? No. We found that in most of the benchmarks, the Asus P5Q Pro was able to score better than other motherboards in the same price range.



To test the motherboard, we used a SMPS. In PC Mark 05, the P5Q Pro scored 8077, whereas 8168 in 3D Mark 06. The render average in POV-ray was 5 R 52 5 pps. The Cinebench scores were high as well at 2720 and 9490 for single and four cores respectively.

The features on this motherboard include 6 x SATA 3Gb/s, PCIe Gb LAN controller, Max. 12 USB2.0/1.1 ports(6 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back panel), 8-channel Audio I/O, 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots and 4 x DlMM, for max. 16GB DDR2 RAM.