System Setup and Benchmarks Used

Testing Setup

Our testing setup for this M2N32-SLI motherboard is the same as we used in our Asus Crosshair motherboard review and our previous AM2 motherboards.  For comparisons, we pit the M2N32-SLI Deluxe agains the nForce 590 SLI reference platform and the ECS KA3-MVP motherboard, based on the Radeon XPress 3200 chipset from ATI.   

AMD AM2 Test System Setup

CPU

Athlon 64 FX-62 (2.8 GHz, 1MBx2) – Review

Motherboards

Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 590 SLI
ECS KA3-MVP XPress 3200 AM2 Motherboard – Review
NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Reference

Memory 

Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

Hard Drive

Western Digital Raptor 150 GB – Review

Sound Card

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value

Video Card

ATI X1900 XTX (650/775) – Review

Video Drivers

Catalyst 6.8

DirectX Version

DX 9.0c

Operating System

Windows XP Professional SP1

Benchmarks:

  • SiSoft Sandra 2005.SR3
  • Everest Ultimate Edition 2006
  • World Bench 5
  • Windows Media Encoder 9
  • DivX 6.1
  • LAME MT
  • CineBench 9.5
  • SPECviewperf 8.01
  • WinRAR 3.51
  • 3DMark06
  • FEAR 1.03
  • Call of Duty 2 1.01
  • PCMark05
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