Asus Not at the Top

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At this site, Motherboards.org, Asus has one of the worst performances from
its A8N32-SLI board.
http://www.motherboards.org/ranking/motherboards/AMD939pcix/0_8_2_100/

Check it out.
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Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939, A64 3500+ @ 2.29ghz using bios High Perf settings
2 Gig Dual Channel OCZ PC3200 Platinum Edition XTC 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
SB Live OEM
ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 XT- using ATI 5.11 drivers
WD120gb + 80gb HD 8mb buffers
Liteon 1693S 16X Dual Layer
Pioneer DVR-110D 16X Dual Layer
ViewSonic 19" A91f+ CRT
Micrsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick

Overall Score 3DMark05 Free- 1398 CpuScore-4822
Overall Score 3DMark2001SE- 12429
 
There is one way to find out. There are more than a few of us here now with
64 bit processors and 939 motherboards. Why don't we all benchmark our
systems and post the scores so that we can see which motherboards( and
maybe other parts) are worth buying. I think 3DMark05 Free edition is all
right because its not a long benchmark and it shows your cpu score in the
"Details" section. Course I'm willing to try others, what ever the vote is,
be it Aquamark or 3DMark2001 SE. But in CPU's PC Modder magazine, they
benchmarked a bunch of motherboards including the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, which
had a memory score 900 points below that of DFI's Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR. And
this is stock performance using the most recent versions of bios and mb
drivers. So motherboards.org seems to validate what was said else where. I
agree with you on Gigabyte. After installing new drivers over top the old
ones, I still seem to have an issue with the IDE driver. When I access one
of my partitioned drives, it freezes up and I have to restart. This never
happened on my XP2600/ASUS system. Course I haven't done a fresh install,
which I hope will fix this problem. Also, after upgrading my ram from 512 to
2 gigs, my cpu score went from 3900 to 4412 on 3DMark05 Free edition ( no
overclock). Unfortunatly, I didn't see any appreciative performance
difference working on the desktop. I think a Raid 0 setup is necessary to
improve performance. I hope to have 3 Raid 0 arrays using 6 hard drives
eventually.

Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939, A64 3500+
2 Gig Dual Channel OCZ PC3200 Platinum Edition XTC 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
SB Live OEM
ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 XT- using ATI 5.11 drivers
WD120gb + 80gb HD 8mb buffers
Liteon 1693S 16X Dual Layer
Pioneer DVR-110D 16X Dual Layer
ViewSonic 19" A91f+ CRT
Micrsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick

Overall Score 3DMark05 Free- 1398 CpuScore-4412
Overall Score 3DMark2001SE- 12429
 
First review I've seen of Abit's 32X board,very impressive.I was considering
Asus's model,may rethink that now.
 
We was in one of the tornadoes last Sunday and we lost power for about
30 hours. Too long for the battery back-up to hold power to the power
supply of my Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 based system. When power was
restored, it took a couple of hours of attempts to get the system to post.

I learned early not to use PATA drives with the Gigabyte system. I'm
running SATA II drives in RAID0. Not having many problems with that.

My primary system:

Gigabyte K8N512GMF-9, A64 3700+ San Diego, o/c to 2552mhz
1 Gig Dual Channel Corsair XMS 2-3-3-? CAS2
GeForce 6100 video (built on board)
2 x WD160gb SATA II hard drives in RAID0
Liteon DVD Dual Layer
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick
NEC LCD1712 monitor

Some day I'll run a comparative benchmark.
 
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