Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe review

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Review Date: 29 Nov 2006

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: Chris Finnamore

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

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Asus's M2N32-SLI Deluxe has a huge number of overclocking options in its BIOS.

It uses the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset. Unlike the nForce 570 chipset used by Gigabyte's GA-M57SLI-S4, nForce 590 motherboards can run two PCI Express x16 slots at full speed rather than dividing the speed of one slot between them.

The M2N32-SLI has seven SATA II ports and an E-SATA II socket on the rear, but when a second graphics card is fitted it blocks two of the internal SATA II ports. It has no PCI-E x1 slots, but PCI-E x1 cards will fit in the spare PCI-E x4 slot. Its performance in our 2D benchmarks was similar to the other ATX AM2 motherboards, but its 3D performance was slightly worse, falling a few frames per second (fps) behind in Call of Duty 2.

If you want to overclock, this is a great motherboard, but it's too expensive for most users. Gigabyte's GA-M57SLI-S4 is much cheaper and not much slower.

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