Now that my SLI review has been published I can talk a bit more freely about the issues I encountered over the weekend. ASUS' first revision of the A8N-SLI Deluxe was absolutely horrible, I had all types of stability problems - many more than I ran into with the MSI board I reviewed weeks earlier.
As soon as ASUS learned of my problems they worked on getting me an updated board, but unfortunately it didn't make it to the States from Taiwan until yesterday afternoon. I had struggled the entire weekend to get only about 20% of my benchmarks done on the buggy first sample, but as soon as I got a working board I went to town on benchmarking.
Unfortunately, being tied up with the buggy board all weekend I didn't have a chance to finish up the Half Life 2 CPU scaling tests. I'm down in NC until Saturday for Thanksgiving, so I won't be able to get to it until I get back. If you all still want me to do the article "so long" after Half Life 2's release, I'll gladly invest the time to do it. It's probably a day or two of solid benchmarking to do what I was planning on doing, so just say the word and you'll have it.
I'm a bit on the tired side so I may turn in early (or end up getting up in an hour to get some writing done). It's good to be back in NC but I'll talk more about that tomorrow.
Goodnight folks.
As soon as ASUS learned of my problems they worked on getting me an updated board, but unfortunately it didn't make it to the States from Taiwan until yesterday afternoon. I had struggled the entire weekend to get only about 20% of my benchmarks done on the buggy first sample, but as soon as I got a working board I went to town on benchmarking.
Unfortunately, being tied up with the buggy board all weekend I didn't have a chance to finish up the Half Life 2 CPU scaling tests. I'm down in NC until Saturday for Thanksgiving, so I won't be able to get to it until I get back. If you all still want me to do the article "so long" after Half Life 2's release, I'll gladly invest the time to do it. It's probably a day or two of solid benchmarking to do what I was planning on doing, so just say the word and you'll have it.
I'm a bit on the tired side so I may turn in early (or end up getting up in an hour to get some writing done). It's good to be back in NC but I'll talk more about that tomorrow.
Goodnight folks.
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FlameDeer - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - link
For sure, HL2 CPU scaling test must be Great :) It would be worth the time of waiting.By the way, just relax and enjoy your holiday in NC. Happy Thanksgiving Anand!
blckgrffn - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - link
I would really like to see the CPU scaling review, for sure. And to risk sounding like a nag, I would still like to see how the lower end Radeons and Geforce FX's play the game.Thanks!
Nat
CaptainSpectacular - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - link
how is that even a question? *Of course* we want to see HL2 CPU scaling :) As you know, I upgraded preemptively ;), but not everyone has made those upgrade purchases to play HL2 just yet and I don't think i've seen CPU scaling done elsewhere yet.Appu - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - link
Anand, granted that HL2 has been out for a decentlylong time now, but your articles are always a treat
to read, and a CPU scaling report will shed a lot of
light on the game in a way in which most of us can't
see (if I'm not wrong). So please go ahead and give
us that article if you have the time :).
George Powell - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - link
I thought your article was really great, and it was good to see that Asus acted so promptly to your problems. So much so that I have garnered that warm fuzzy feeling about preordering the same board. Really looking forward to seeing the full review of the board in the future.Nice work.