Review: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0

On to our non-3D benchmarks and hopefully some more interesting graphs. But don't hold your breath. Let's give Pifast a run out, 10 million decimal places of Pi sounds like a good test of overall system performance, stressing both CPU and memory controller performance.

Pifast performance

That's more like it. CPU I/O bandwidth gets a hike to 3.2GB/sec with the new official bus speed ceiling and the XP3200+ takes full advantage. 20% more bandwidth churns out an impressive victory. Can that be carried on to LAME encoding?

LAME MP3 encoding performance

It's all about the MHz here, system bandwidth doesn't really matter at all, hence the meagre increase over the 166MHz bus XP3000+. The 2 second increase is almost all down to the increase in clock speed.

SETI performance

Another impressive show off of the new 200MHz bus and a record time here at Hexus (at least until the ASUS Springdale article goes live). The XP3200+ is impressive with the new chipset and the ASUS is pretty swift.

So that's it in terms of performance. I know things were kept pretty brief, lets discuss why.