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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.

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  • Phantronius - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Holy shit!!! $250 for one of these boards via newegg!!????
  • Capt Caveman - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Newegg = Screwegg

    Mwave has it for $195 in stock. And Mwave will call you to let you know that it shipped.
  • Zebo - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Mwave rocks I'm not even sure why people screw around with newegg anymore. I've ordered my last six or so mobo+cpu combos from mwave always cheapest and a free something... game.. app..etc.

    Asus appears to be back after lackluster non-existant NF3 and recent NF4 boards! I may get this and I don't even run Sli.. $200 is a little hard to swallow with DFI ultra for $120 but I like silent setup.
  • Jedi2155 - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Wat about Monarch?
  • bob661 - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    Monarch has it for $249 last I checked. I wouldn't buy from Mwave. Like the other dude said their customer service leaves a LOT to be desired. I'll buy from Newegg. Customer service is top notch and their shipping is super fast. I'll also buy from ZZF. Their customer is also pretty good although shipping a bit slower than Newegg.
  • Leper Messiah - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    See, I've had both good and bad expierences with mwave, their customer service is crappy (can't understand asians who have been speaking english for a month tops.) but their prices are good. Too bad newegg gouges on Fedex shipping now.

    BTW, whats going on with the forums? Haven't been able to log in for a while...
  • xsilver - Monday, November 7, 2005 - link

    thats a bit racist isnt it?
    they have a totally different pronounciation format in their language so they never get the english accent totally right
    conversly, even if you learned chinese for 20years your accent would still sound funny
  • sxr7171 - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    When SLI was first introduced last year, we were told that 8x was more than enough bandwidth and that currently video cards can't even come close to saturating that bus. Now we have all this dual x16 hype - for what? Were they lying then or are they lying now? I guess it's good for future-proofing and progress is good, the consumer must be aware of it.
  • ElFenix - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    if they're claiming a goodly reduction in energy usage due to the 8 phase design i'd like to see if it bears out.
  • SnakeJG - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

    quote:

    Asus claims that a CPU requiring 130W in a 4-phase design will see a 10% reduction in power consumption in an 8-phase design.


    I would really love to see you guys test this out by comparing the power draw of different SLI systems, and seeing if the 8-phase design actually saves noticable power.

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