General Performance

General Usage Performance

Content Creation Performance

General Performance

We often find that boards that have been tweaked for best overclocking performance do not produce the best results in our General Performance testing. This was true of the DFI nF4 SLI-DR and it also is true of the new Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe. The Asus scores at or near the bottom among similar boards in Winstones, though the small range of values makes this insignificant.

However, the PCMark05 scores are the best of any NVIDIA chipset board that we have tested. Since PCM05 is a more recent benchmark, it is likely more sensitive to the performance enhancements that are used in the Dual x16 design.

Test Setup Graphics Performance and Encoding
Comments Locked

95 Comments

View All Comments

  • DrZoidberg - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    yes this is a very nice board with the cooler 8 phase design, and heatpipe, no more annoying tiny chipset fan. However, i think this board will be over $200USD =(
  • anandtechrocks - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Yea, this looks like a very nice board. Now I'm looking at the new DFI NF4 Expert, those sweet Saphire ATI boards, and this one! So many choices!!
  • One43637 - Tuesday, December 6, 2005 - link

    i'm looking to put a new system together and i am also looking at this board.

    i'm not famaliar with AMD chipsets, but will this board work with the new AMD X2s?
  • michal1980 - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    this sucks, haven't evn put my system togther with my epox sli board, and now a board that gives u a 17% boost, CRAP.
  • Brian23 - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Anandtech: You say we should upgrade our drivers to the latest for increased performance. However, I am unable to find the 6.82 platform driver anywhere.

Log in

Don't have an account? Sign up now