Asus P5N32-SLI: Dual x16 - What Dreams Are Made On

[Åsmund@ATi]

Reveiw av Asus sitt nye Asus P5N32-SLI: Dual x16

 

This line as spoken by the magician Prospero in William Shakespeare's whimsical play, "The Tempest", reminds us of the uniqueness of the human mind and the fleeting amount of time that we are around to utilize it.

 

The Asus P5N32-SLI Deluxe that we will review today is also very unique in several ways and like most computer products in the current marketplace, its life span will be fleeting. However, for those of you who have the opportunity to utilize it, you will find what dreams are made on.

 

I will say this up front; this is one of the better motherboards that I have had the opportunity to use in the last 20 years. In fact, this board deserves additional testing time in order to explore fully and extract all of its performance potential. In keeping with what we believe is the best option for the current Intel processor lineup, the Pentium D series, we did not test a single core processor on this board. However, based upon the results that we extracted from the 840EE and 820D processors, we will be testing a single core processor on this board in the near future.

 

What all this means is that your system will run cooler and overclock better compared to other solutions. In fact, through informal testing utilizing the BIOS readings, we found our Intel Pentium 840EE was on average running about 5c cooler in the Asus board compared to other solutions in the same test setup and ambient conditions. We will be conducting more thermal tests with scientific instrumentation in the near future. Our average overclocks were around 5% better than the other boards at more aggressive memory timings and with lower voltages required to the chipsets. While this does not sound like much, the ability of this board to run a CPU that previously topped out in the 3.9GHz range at up to 4.2GHz is impressive. The Asus P5N32-SLI Deluxe was an extremely stable board throughout our testing and did not fail a single time throughout two weeks of varying tests and conditions.

 

Link til Testen

 

 

Enjoy!

[jacoweb]

Oh najs jeg har kortet under det her. Det her så litt mere strøken ut. nice finnish!

[larswey]

mm. ser digg ut det kortet der. er det to sli 16x porter der? jeg kan bare se en

 

edit: så den nå. litt dårlig kontrast på denne pc`en, sitter på skolen

Endret 27. oktober 2005 av larswey

[John Deere]

Ser ut som X16 gir hele 25 % ytelsesøkning ved SLi i forhold til PCI Expres X8 i dette tilfellt. I så fall burde en vurdere å bytte ut hovedkortet snart

[Vargtass]

Leste review hos Anandtech nå; dette blir mitt neste mobo!

 

Men, lurer litt på en ting - hvordan er det å få av den passive kjølelsøningene på NB? Der skal det på en vannblokk allikevel.

 

Noen som aner?

 

mvh r.-

[Npvk_X]

hadde noen kunne garrantere at dette støtter Corone cpuene som kommer om litt under ett år så hadde det vert en "no brainer"... leste saken i går...

 

muligens tar jeg en liten test av 65nm for jeg hopper over på corone... men men..

 

Pri 1 om dagen er testing av dothan@fort vs min 4ghz prescott.

 

Pri 2 437W pelt system... skal vere klart før jeg bytter til lga775...

 

Men dette er helt klart en sterk kandidat til mitt neste kort... full dual core støtte og 8 fases strøm kretser, 2.4v ddr...

 

Edit..

Pris på komplett er 1895 som ikke er avskrekkende (bruker å ganske kjope dyre hk, ett stabilt grunnlag for resten av systemet)

Endret 27. oktober 2005 av Npvk_X