Product Application:

Intel Motherboard

Product Provided by:

Asus

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$369.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

June 26th, 2008

 

 

 

Benchmarks Continued

SuperPI

SuperPi

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) 17.582sec
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 13.151sec

HD Tach

HD Tach

Test 2.66Ghz 3.6GHz
Burst Speed 190.7 MB/s 205.5 MB/s
Avg. Read 86.3 MB/s 85.8 MB/s
Random Access 14.0ms 14.0ms

Gaming Performance

Supreme Commander

     Settings are as follows; 1680x1050, High Settings 2x AntiAliasing.  Benchmark ran by creating a shortcut on the desktop and adding /perf and the end of the .exe.  In Vista, you will need to run this as an administrator or it will crash.

Supreme Commander

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) SupCom Mark 17273
FPS Average 49.707
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) SupCom Mark 17554
FPS Average 52.874

Quake Wars: Enemy Territory

    ET:QW was benched using a custom recorded demo using the console command "RecordNetDemo bench1" then benching it using the command "TimeNetDemo bench1".  If you attempt this, make sure you apply the following console commands prior to recording your demo.  First off, to get into the console press Ctrl + Alt + ~ at the same time.  Next type without the quotes, "seta com_unlockFPS 1" next "seta com_unlock_maxFPS 0".  This will prevent the game from capping the FPS at 60FPS.  You will still be capped at 30FPS while you are in the menu.  Next if you want to keep an eye on your FPS, you can type, "seta com_showFPS 1".  You should only have to type these once, and they should be saved to your config file.

Quake Wars: Enemy Territory

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) 130.0 FPS
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 154.1 FPS

Unreal Tournament 3

     Unreal was benched using a shortcut with the following commands:

"C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe" WAR-Serenity?causeevent=FlyThrough?quickstart=1?nocusto mchars=1?numplay=0 -seconds=300 -unattended -novsync -fixedseed -CaptureFPSChartInfo=1 -nomoviestartup

Unreal Tournament 3

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) 116.12 FPS
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 117.67 FPS

Call of Juarez

     Call of Juarez was benched using 1680 x 1050 resolution, quality set to high and MSAA at 4x.

Call of Juarez

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) Min 16.0
Max 44.2
Average 25.5
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) Min 16.5
Max 45.0
Average 25.8

Company of Heroes

     Company of Heroes was benched using the DirectX 10 patch, 1680 x 1050, and everything set to High.

Company of Heroes

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) Min 5.8 FPS
Max 58.9 FPS
Average 35.6 FPS
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) Min 9.8 FPS
Max 60.0 FPS
Average 37.0 FPS

 

Page 1:  Intro & Specs
Page 2:  Intel X48 Chipset
Page 3:  Packaging & Contents
Page 4:  Board Layout Part 1
Page 5:  Board Layout Part 2
Page 6:  BIOS
Page 7:  BIOS Cont
Page 8:  Overclocking & Testing
Page 9:  Gaming Performance
Page 10:  Conclusion