Overclocking Results:

stock max. oc motherboard speed: 200 mhz 315 mhz if you're new to Overclocking and not sure what to do, check out these two excellent Guides for some pointers: Overclocking the CPU and Memory Overclocking the Videocard

Overclocking workstation components is usually not such a good idea, but if you must then the Asus M2N32 WS Professional looks like it's a decent alternative. Before the motherboard was overclocked, the processor multiplier was first set to 6x and the memory to run at DDR2-533 MHz mode.

Starting at 200 MHz, and going up in 5 MHz jumps, the Asus M2N32 WS Professional actually turned out to be a pretty good overclocker. There was little that had to be done to the motherboard to get it up to 300 MHz mark.

In the end though, this board topped out at 315 MHz. For this, it was unnecessary to even adjust any chipset or CPU voltages.

The Asus BIOS:

If you like to tweak, you're going to love the Asus M2N32 WS Professional motherboard. There are the usual CAS Latency, RAS to CAS and RAS precharge options along with a ton of advanced memory timing adjustments.

Motherboard frequency can be adjusted between 200-400 MHz, maximum memory voltage is 2.5V and CPU voltage is 1.4V. There are additional voltage options, however Asus could do a better job at labelling each.

Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the Asus M2N32 WS Professional motherboard test system was configured for benchmarking; the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions is indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this 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 on the next page.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system reference system #1 reference system #2 processor: amd Athlon64 X2 5000+ Intel Pentium D 940 Clock Speed: 14 x 200 MHz = 2.8 GHz 16 x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz Motherboard: Asus M2N32 WS Professional (NF 590 SLI) ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (VIA K8T890) MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI) Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI) Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF 6150) Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X) Videocard: MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E Memory: Corsair Twin2X2048-8500 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 VIA 4in1 5.09a nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware 9.35 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Intel INF 7.22 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Benchmarks: SYSMark 2004 Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 Super Pi SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark05 3DMark05 3DMark06 FarCry Doom 3 Quake 4