EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiast PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking, it provides essential system and overclocking information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information make EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC. The software has several tests for memory and CPU/FPU built-in.

We include the results of two other motherboards for comparison and see that the fastest motherboard in the Everest Ultimate Edition Memory Tests was the Asus P5B Deluxe. This can be explained in that with the ASUS board you can set the memory to work at a CPU:RAM ratio of 1:2, resulting in higher running speeds, something that cannot be achieved with the other two motherboards.

In the CPU tests, the Foxconn Q9657MC was top performer in the first four tests and only lagged behind in the Photoworxx benchmark test.

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc. Sisoft Sandra offers a variety of tests for Memory and CPU.

In Sisoft Sandra 2007 SP1 CPU tests, there is very little between the three motherboards. In the Memory Tests, the ASUS P5B Deluxe had a slight edge.