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Asus A8N-SLI Premium Athlon64 Motherboard Review
Asus A8N-SLI Premium Athlon64 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
In terms of expansion, the motherboard offers up one PCI Express x1 slot, one PCI Express x4 slot and three traditional 32 bit PCI slots to the two PCI Express x16 sockets.
 94% Rating:   
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External Mfg. Website: ASUS Aug 09 2005   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: 3DMark05, Comanche 4

3DMark05 Source: FutureMark

3DMark05 is the latest version of the highly favoured 3DMark graphics benchmarking series. It is the first benchmark to require DirectX®9.0 compliant hardware with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 or higher.

3DMark05
Overall: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 4482
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 4959
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 4678
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 5517
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400 X800 XT) 5627
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 5708
Foxconn WinFast NF4K8AC-8EKRS (NF4 200/400) 5896
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 5572
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5583
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 6209
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5579
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 6144
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5568
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 6575
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5519
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT) 6748
CPU: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 4824
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 4920
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 4654
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 5096
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400 X800 XT) 4835
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 5088
Foxconn WinFast NF4K8AC-8EKRS (NF4 200/400) 4893
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 4560
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5321
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 5158
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5110
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 5133
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 4851
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 5289
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 5113
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT) 5174

The Asus A8N-SLI Premium does very well in 3DMark05. both when using the X800 XT and GeForce 6600GT cards in SLI. The Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS comes out with the best SLI benchmark results though.

Comanche 4 Source: Novalogic

The Comanche 4 benchmark demo is a unique test as it represents a real-world gaming experience. It contains the single player "Eagle's Talon" mission from the game as well as a detailed cinematic. This DirectX 8.1 benchmark demo will measure your system's performance in the standard frames per second format. The benchmark was run with audio disabled.

Comanche 4
640x480 FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 78.26
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 79.88
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 79.51
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 80.38
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400 X800 XT) 77.92
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 79.01
Foxconn WinFast NF4K8AC-8EKRS (NF4 200/400) 79.84
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 80.77
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 81.83
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 81.24
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 82.03
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 81.47
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 80.4
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 79.15
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800 XT) 81.16
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT) 79.09

Perhaps it is time to drop Comanche 4 from PCSTATS' benchmark suite as it can no longer tell the difference between systems. Framerates here are all within 2-3FPS of each other, at least you know what you can get when you go Athlon64. ;)

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Contents of Article: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
 Pg 1.  Asus A8N-SLI Premium Athlon64 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Heatpipes, Switchless SLI and Overclocking
 Pg 3.  The Asus A8N-SLI BIOS
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 8.  — Benchmarks: 3DMark05, Comanche 4
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: X2: The Threat, UT2003
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3
 Pg 11.  Asus A8N-SLI and the Heatpipe

 
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