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

 

 

 

Synthetic Gaming Benches

     I used the default settings for all of the following benchmarks.

PCMarkVantage
Default Clocks (2.4GHz) 4276
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 5913
PCMark Vantage Individual Tests
Test 2.4GHz 3.6GHz
Memories 3584 4870
TV and Movies 3823 4758
Gaming 4453 6229
Music 4490 5915
Communications 4168 5590
Productivity 3019 3831
HDD 4467 4447



AquaMark

Default Clocks (2.4GHz) 94,528
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 135,637

 

PassMark Test Overall Score

Default Clocks (2.4GHz) 824.6
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 1088.3
PassMark Individual Tests
Test 2.4GHz 3.6GHz
CPU - Integer Math 212.9 318.0
CPU - Floating Point Math 571.3 848.3
CPU - Find Prime Numbers 617.3 931.8
CPU - SSE/3DNow! 4813.3 7054.2
CPU - Compression 5471.8 8208.7
CPU - Encryption 33.5 50.2
CPU - Image Rotation 1106.7 1653.2
CPU - String Sorting 3748.3 5577.2
Memory - Allocate Small Block 1904.2 2903.5
Memory - Read Cached 1830.9 2738.3
Memory - Read Uncached 1784.8 2678.7
Memory - Write 1654.6 2403.4
Memory - Large RAM 443.7 646.5
Disk - Sequential Read 65.9 69.3
Disk - Sequential Write 82.2 84.2
Disk - Random Seek + RW 5.6 5.6


 

3DMark06

Default Clocks (2.4GHz) 10897
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz) 12422
3DMark06 Individual Tests (FPS)
Test 2.4GHz 3.6GHz
GT1: Return to Proxycon 35.395 36.149
GT2: Firefly Forest 36.879 43.209
HDR1: Canyon Flight 45.836 46.490
HDR2: Deep Freeze 51.104 56.360
CPU1: Red Valley 1.106 1.652
CPU2: Red Valley 1.657 2.485

    As you can see, the board performs very well.

Conclusion

     Asus has created the ultimate motherboard.  There are very few options that were left off that I would even want.  Actually the only one I can think of is wireless networking.  Unfortunately, Asus knows that the monster they've created is freakin' awesome and they've attached a monster price tag.  We have always said that if you want the best, you have to pay for it.  This is easily the best motherboard that I've tested and it won't be leaving my computer anytime soon.  I cannot give this motherboard a perfect rating with the price the way it is, but I can easily recommend it.  If you have the money and you're looking for a completely awesome motherboard, you have to buy the Asus Striker II Extreme.  Club Overclocker Recommended.

Note: Club Overclocker is now using a new rating system based on a score of 1 to 5.
Please go to our rating system page for more information.

Performance: 5 out of 5

Innovation:

5 out of 5

Quality:

5 out of 5

Stability:

5 out of 5
Aesthetics: 5 out of 5

Software/Drivers Pack:

5 out of 5

Overclocking:

5 out of 5
Value: 3 out of 5

Project Skill Level
(5 being most difficult)

4 out of 5

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