Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus

Memory Performance:

Unbuffered memory performance is very good in linked mode, although it loses out to the P965 Asus which has a more efficient memory controller, The P5N32-E SLI Plus does offer more ratios of CPU to memory. It's also only fractionally behind the 680i based Striker Extreme.


Latency is also very low, matching that of the Striker Extreme.

Disk Performance:

The read tests were conducted using HD Tach 3.0.1.0's 8MB zone test. The USB 2.0 and Firewire tests were done using an SimpleTech 250GB External hard drive using the same 8MB zone test. We recorded the average read speeds in all cases.


USB performance is also excellent, offering slightly lower CPU usage and fractionally higher performance, even though the chipsets are not naturally paired together.


Firewire is pretty much identical across the board, which isn't surprising considering they all are based on VIA's Firewire chip.