The details of how the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard test system was configured for benchmarking, including the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this socket AM2 nVidia nForce 590 SLI-based motherboard is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system reference system #1 reference system #2 processor: amd Athlon64 FX-62 (socket AM2) Intel Pentium D 940 Clock Speed: 12 x 200 MHz = 2.4 GHz 16 x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz< /P > Motherboard: Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI) Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI) Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X) Videocard: MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (PCI Express) Memory: Corsair Twin2X2048-8500 DDR-2 Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: AMD Athlon64 FX-62 Reference Thermaltake Jungle 512 Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware Beta nVIDIA Forceware 81.95 Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Intel INF 7.22 nVIDIA Forceware 81.95 Benchmarks: SYSMark 2004 Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 Super Pi SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark05 3DMark05 3DMark06 FarCry Doom 3 Quake 4

SYSmark2004	Source: Bapco

SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark 2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may encounter. In addition to extensive validation across multiple platforms, users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.

SYSmark2004
Internet Overall:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	287
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	373
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	375
3D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	257
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	322
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	328
2D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	348
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	450
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	443
Web Publication	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	265
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	341
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	342
Office Overall:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	207
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	258
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	261
Communication:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	189
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	260
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	263
Document Creation:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	223
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	298
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	297
Data Analysis:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	209
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	211
Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	214

The Asus M2N32SLI-DLX motherboard is pretty darn fast and as you can see totally outclasses the Intel competition with a FX-62 socket AM2 processor. These are the highest SYSMark 2004 numbers we have ever seen, great job AMD!