Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

Gaming Performance

The overall gaming performance of the ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 is very good in all titles, except Doom3 where the board consistently produced results up to 9fps lower than the ATI and NVIDIA chipset based boards. In actual DOOM3 game play, the drop in frame rates was not noticeable. We did not witness any further anomalies or issues throughout our test benchmarks and on-line gaming sessions. At stock settings, this board competes very well against boards costing twice as much. The board exhibited excellent stability in all phases of game testing.

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  • Zoomer - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    This board would cannabilize sales of the premium SLI32 and xfire board that Asus sells for $150 IF it included voltage settings up to 2v vCore, 3.2v vMem, etc.

    They would be stupid to do it. These people will pay the $150 anyway if they don't have an easy (cheap) alternative. For the rest of us, we can get busy with a 2B pencil, solders or conductive ink. ;) And forgo the warranty on it, so if it goes boom in a year's time, you're on your own.

    Nice strategy. Would AT leak the beta bios for comparison's sake? (We'll smuggle it to xs or ocwb....:D)
  • poohbear - Thursday, March 2, 2006 - link

    and for the record the dualsata2 is a very stable mobo @ stock settings, i have to give credit where it's due, but for overclocking this company's products shouldnt even be considered.
  • sandorski - Thursday, March 2, 2006 - link

    It kinda sucks Nvidia bought out ULI, they were very innovative and really filled niche markets very well. Then again, perhaps Nvidia will let them continue doing interesting things there?
  • Cygni - Thursday, March 2, 2006 - link

    Hard to argue with that... looks like ASRock/ULi has another mega seller on their hand with this baby. But I cant help but wish it had an AGP slot thrown in between the two PCI-Ex lanes, to allow an upgrade path. Thats probably the primary reason the ULi 1695 boards have been selling so well.

    The IDE and SATA performance numbers are really striking in contrast to Nvidia's. I hope we see the inclusion of ULi's storage controller in future Nvidia chipsets.

    All for $85... awesome.
  • Furen - Thursday, March 2, 2006 - link

    If it had an AGP slot then it would have to use ULi's AGP tunnel + the 1697 instead of the 1695 + 1697, which would mean that it'd only have 16 PCI-e lanes for graphics. I suppose most of us wouldn't mind going for two 8x slots while in SLI but then most of us wouldn't really want SLI to begin with.
  • JackPack - Thursday, March 2, 2006 - link

    Quality doesn't seem to be bad either. Panasonic and UCC caps in there.

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