Product Application:

Intel Motherboard

Product Provided by:

Asus

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$469.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

April 15th, 2008

 

 

 

Benchmarks Continued

PCMark05

PCMark05

Default Clocks (2.4GHz) CPU 7650
Memory 5118
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) CPU 11490
Memory 7803

SuperPI

SuperPi

Default Clocks (2.4GHz) 21.751sec
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 14.804sec

HD Tach

HD Tach

Test 2.4Ghz 3.6GHz
Burst Speed 176.1 MB/s 190.7 MB/s
Avg. Read 75.9 MB/s 79.8 MB/s
Random Access 14.5ms 14.4ms

 

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 (2.4GHz) SupCom Mark 16542
FPS Average 60.49
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) SupCom Mark 17133
FPS Average 61.22

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 (2.4GHz) 95.6 FPS
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 113.3 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 (2.4GHz) 97.43 FPS
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 101.63 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 (2.4GHz) Min 12.1
Max 37.7
Average 21.8
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) Min 11.2
Max 38.3
Average 21.8

 

Page 1:  Intro & Specs
Page 2:  NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI Chipset
Page 3:  Packaging & Contents
Page 4:  Board Layout Part 1
Page 5:  Board Layout Part 2
Page 5:  BIOS Part 1
Page 6:  BIOS Part 2
Page 7:  BIOS Part 3
Page 8:  Overclocking & Testing
Page 9:  Gaming Performance
Page 10:  Conclusion