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Review: ASUS P4R800-V Deluxe Motherboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 April 2004, 00:00

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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3DMark 2001SE, X², Comanche 4

Gaming benchmarks include the P4R800-V Deluxe's onboard graphics that are run with an allocation of 128MB RAM. 2-2-2-6 latencies should help boost scores a touch.



DX8.1 compliance guarantees that all game tests are run. As a yardstick, a well-tuned board with Intel's Extreme Graphics 2 would score around 3,500 marks, with the score hampered by the inability to run test 4, Nature. A breakdown of the onboard scores can be found here.



Decent enough Comanche 4 performance when run with an ASUS Radeon 9800 XT 256MB card.



Compromises have to be made when integrating graphics right on to the Northbridge. ATI's made fewer than Intel, yet any modern game will stretch 3D rendering abilities to the limit. Vertex calculations have to be undertaken by the host processor. A 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Northwood is plenty powerful enough to handle the task.