ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
13. Colin McRae 2005
Review Pages
2. The mainboard - Packaging
3. NVidia's Scalable Link Interface
4. Test System - Configuration
5. 3DMark05
6. 3DMark03
7. Codecreatures
8. Aquamark/3DMark 2001
9. Half Life 2
10. Doom 3
11. FarCry
12. Thief 3
13. Colin McRae 2005
14. Ground Control II
15. Performance Test v5.0
16. BIOS
17. Bundled Software
18. AIBooster - Overclocking
19. Conclusion
For all you racing fans out there, this test is for you and will represent the Racing game category in our benchmarks.
From the graphics point of view the first thing you'll notice in the game is the excellent amount detail of your racing car. High resolution textures on the car and lighting make it quite impressive. All the eye candy such as the sun reflection in the virtual camera are still the same as the older CM versions but motion blur has been added when your card hits something hard which will happen most often if you're new to the racing simulation world.
To measure performance on the game we used fraps to get the average fps of the whole 8th stage of UK which is actually the only stage you get to play on the demo.
Even if the P5ND2 motherboard uses the Intel 3.73Ghz Extreme CPU, the humble AMD 3500+ with a great deal of help from the A8N-SLI Premium, approaches very closely the Intel based board performance. Despite the fact that with no Anisotropic Filtering and Anti Aliasing, the frame rate differences are greater, these are not enough to worry about.
Again, the Premium was better than the Deluxe version of the A8N-SLI motherboard.
Review Pages
2. The mainboard - Packaging
3. NVidia's Scalable Link Interface
4. Test System - Configuration
5. 3DMark05
6. 3DMark03
7. Codecreatures
8. Aquamark/3DMark 2001
9. Half Life 2
10. Doom 3
11. FarCry
12. Thief 3
13. Colin McRae 2005
14. Ground Control II
15. Performance Test v5.0
16. BIOS
17. Bundled Software
18. AIBooster - Overclocking
19. Conclusion