DirectX 9 Gaming Performance
DirectX 9 games do seem to benefit more from the increased memory speeds available on the Asus P5DW2 Premium and P5ND2-SLI Premium. All of the DirectX 9 games are faster at DDR2-667 and DDR2-800. A typical pattern is seen in UT2004 where the performance increase from 925X/533 to DDR2-800 is 5% to 6%. This is the pattern seen in all the gaming benchmarks, with the 925x boards at DDR2-533 at the bottom of the graphs and 955x/nF4 Intel at DDR2-667/DDR2-800 providing the best performance. The 955x and nForce4-SLI Intel are neck-and-neck in gaming performance at the higher speeds with no clear advantage to either chipset at these speeds.
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overclockingoodness - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
Can someone tell me why they decided to bench both at DDR-667 and DDR-800?Wesley: are you planning on testing all Intel mobos like that with two different memory speeds?
Capt Caveman - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
I actually plan on returning the P5WD2 Premium that I purchased. I bought this board for going to dual core but was really sold on the Wifi-TV card that was supposed to come with it. It's the first board in Asus's Ai Life Series and the major component of this series is the Wifi-TV Card.Well, surprise my Asus Premium doesn't come with one. It's optional. I spoke to people at Asus US in Technical Support, Customer Service, Pre-sales and RMA groups and they all confirmed to me that there was only one model and it's optional. Every retailer that carries the P5WD2 Premium has it without the Wifi-TV Card. Yet, the reviewers have them, making you think that the card comes with the board.
Also, things have been down-graded on this board from previous premium boards. The mosfet heatsink is aluminum compared to the copper heatsinks used in my P5AD2-e Premium. Contrary to what some have said, the P5WD2 Premium does not have IDE Raid when the P5AD2-e Premium did. The P5AD2-e Premium also has 1394b where the P5WD2 Premium does not. And obviously no built on Wifi.
Why did they call this board a Premium when it's missing all of the premium items that we're used to getting? Why didn't they just call it the Deluxe since this board does not have the premium features as it's other premium boards?
I believe Asus is misleading folks. I have yet to receive a reply back to several emails that I have sent also.
Sad thing is that I was a huge fan of Asus til getting this board which I must pay a 15% restocking fee to return.
elecrzy - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
on page 2, you might want to add that NF4 supports SATAII, not just SATAI.RadeonGuy - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
it would have been better to include a fx-55 as competition