Asus A8N-VM CSM: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Finally Arrives
by Wesley Fink on December 1, 2005 12:04 AM EST- Posted in
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General Performance, 3D Graphics & Encoding
The same cannot be said for the 3DMark benchmarks. We retested several times because we didn't believe our results at first, and even did a complete fresh install, and went so far as to run benchmarks with the earler 81.26/81.33 drivers and optimized profiles for each benchmark. No matter what we did, 3DMark05 and 3DMark03 were lower on the Asus A8N-VM than on either the Biostar 6100 or the ATI RS482. Perhaps the Biostar BIOS is better optimized for the 3DMark benchmarks. Whatever the reason, the 3DMarks do not correlate well with our other real-world tests.
The same cannot be said for the 3DMark benchmarks. We retested several times because we didn't believe our results at first, and even did a complete fresh install, and went so far as to run benchmarks with the earler 81.26/81.33 drivers and optimized profiles for each benchmark. No matter what we did, 3DMark05 and 3DMark03 were lower on the Asus A8N-VM than on either the Biostar 6100 or the ATI RS482. Perhaps the Biostar BIOS is better optimized for the 3DMark benchmarks. Whatever the reason, the 3DMarks do not correlate well with our other real-world tests.
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formulav8 - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
Speak for yourself.jfreiman - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
What are the chances that this is not Asus' HTPC motherboard?Could they be developing another model for a home theater PC? -- If so, will it use the nVidia chipset?
As much as I want to use this board for my HTPC, I have to examine why Asus would not have - at the very minimum, included a spidif cable and TV out cable.
Something just doesn't fit in this picture.
-John
Calin - Friday, December 2, 2005 - link
I would like to have game performance compared to a single channel board using one of the current integrated graphic chipsets - there is a Biostar board for Socket 754 and a Asrock one. Or at least to have performance checked with a single DIMM (or two DIMMs in single channel mode)Thanks
jamawass - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
Poor implementation of a good idea by Asus.This chipset screams htpc, why have HD audio without out of the box spdif? Might as well have realtek audio. The S video out should also be standard with an optional component out dongle for those who need it. Add-on brackets take up pci openings on the case, quite a few htpc cases are microatx where these slots are a premium.ShadowVlican - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
aw man.... if only this board can OC...jfreiman - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
According to the picture of the motherboad the board you tested was 1.01.However, I just read that there is a 2.0 rev board. Are you aware of this? Do you know if this is accurate?
I can't find anything about this on the Asus site and would like to know about this before I get the final piece (motherboard/video) for my HTPC upgrade.
Thanks for the quick review, and I too would like to know more about it's CPU utilization during DVD and HDTV playback.
Again, thank you.
-John
PS. and if I missed it, what was the BIOS revision you used for your tests.
Gary Key - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
AMI 0506
plonk420 - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
may we see HL2 and MPEG2/WMV9 decoding benchmarks, please, Anand? also, how does one go about purchasing the addon card, and is it S-Video only, or is there hope for component out?BigLan - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
Does the nvidia firewall actually work on this board, or does it corrupt zip archives as have been reported with the nforce4?Leper Messiah - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
Performance is mediocore, features missing, can't OC. Guess I'll be sticking with a biostar 6100-T for my next F@H box.