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Review: ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 3 November 2004, 00:00

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), AMD (NYSE:AMD), VIA Technologies (TPE:2388)

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qazt

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware

Motherboards

ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb, Socket 754, AGP, DDR-I
ASUS K8V Deluxe, VIA K8T800, Socket 754, AGP, DDR-I

Processors

AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+, 2000MHz, 1MB L2

Graphics Cards

ASUS Radeon 9800XT

Memory

512MB (2 x 256MB) Corsair XMS3200LLPT - 2-2-2-6

Hard Disks

1 x 36.6GB Western Digital Raptor SATA

Software

Windows XP Professional w/ SP1
VIA Hyperion 4.51v
ATI CATALYST 4.5
DirectX 9.0b End User Runtime

HEXUS Pifast
Sciencemark 2.0
KribiBench v1.1
LAME 3.92MMX encoding U2's Pop album at 192CBR
Realstorm Raytracing Benchmark
3DMark 2001SE
3DMark03
Quake 3 v1.30

Notes

To keep things simple, allowing you to compare any chipset-level performance differences, the K8N-E only goes up against the older K8V. A now mid-range Model 3200+ (the old Clawhammer 1MB version, a CPU that many a likely K8V upgrader is likely to possess) is the CPU to help us out, with both boards getting the benefit of Corsair's excellent XMS3200 and an ATI Radeon 9800 XT, from ASUS.

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