Testbed and Methods

In conclusion to our ASUS A8V-E Deluxe mainboard review we would like to run our traditional set of benchmarks to show you the performance of this solution against that of other mainboards we have already reviewed. We will compared ASUS A8V-E Deluxe with the results showed by solutions based on NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra and SLI chipsets.

Here is the configuration of our test platform:

• CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4GHz, 512KB L2);

• Mainboards:
• ASUS A8V-E Deluxe (VIA K8T890)
• Chaintech VNF4 Ultra VE  (NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra);
• ECS KN1 Extreme (NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra);
• EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra (NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra);
• Foxconn WinFast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS (NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra);
• MSI K8N Diamond (NVIDIA nForce4 SLI).
• Memory: 1024MB DDR400 SDRAM (Corsair CMX512-3200XLPRO, 2 x 512MB, 2-2-2-10).
• Graphics cards:
• PowerColor RADEON X800 XT (PCI Express x16, 500MHz/500MHz).
• HDD: Western Digital Raptor WD740GD (SATA150).

All tests were run in Windows XP SP2 operating system.

Performance