A selection of desktop based hardware tests from Everest’s Ultimate (Trial Edition), Futuremark's PCMark05, 3DMark Vantage and a couple of recent gaming titles.

Performance

As seen in the Maximus III Gene review the numbers truly speak for themselves.

Everest


i5 750 @ stock results with Everest.


i5 750 @ 3.2ghz results with Everest.


i5 750 @ 4ghz results with Everest.


e2160 @ 3ghz results with Everest.


Phenom II 720 @3.4ghz results with Everest.

At stock clocks the Core i5-750 holds its own against other competing chips but when overclocked the chip really shines.

PCMark05

i5 750 @ stock - Score 9843
Physics and 3D 275.01 FPS
Web Page Rendering 3.67 Pages/s
File Decryption 71.56 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2
Text Edit 156.83 Pages/s
Image Decompression 36.75 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3
File Compression 11.19 MB/s
File Encryption 68.36 MB/s

i5 750 @ 3.2ghz - Score 11598
Physics and 3D 330.19 FPS
Web Page Rendering 4.13 Pages/s
File Decryption 85.44 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2
Text Edit 198.93 Pages/s
Image Decompression 44.56 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3
File Compression 13.69 MB/s
File Encryption 81.75 MB/s

i5 750 @ 4ghz - Score 12797
Physics and 3D 406.18 FPS
Web Page Rendering 5.28 Pages/s
File Decryption 106.56 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2
Text Edit 234.72 Pages/s
Image Decompression 55.46 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3
File Compression 16.49 MB/s
File Encryption 104.29 MB/s

e2160 @ 3ghz - Score 8803
Physics and 3D 158.98 FPS
Web Page Rendering 3.88 Pages/s
File Decryption 82.3 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2
Text Edit 196.39 Pages/s
Image Decompression 41.82 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3
File Compression 6.88 MB/s
File Encryption 40.96 MB/s

PII 720 @ 3.4ghz - Score 10070
Physics and 3D 268.86 FPS
Web Page Rendering 3.69 Pages/s
File Decryption 82.47 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2
Text Edit 178.53 Pages/s
Image Decompression 43.29 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3
File Compression 10.37 MB/s
File Encryption 86.62 MB/s