The best performer in this category, this board performed well across all the tests. With an overall score of 93/100, this one was the best performer. It scored 7974 marks in 3D Mark 06 which is pretty high. Also in PCMark 05 a score of 4710 was decent enough to make things work.

It comes with a circular heat pipe design that helps in enhancing performance. Its performance in POV Ray was good and it showed 110 ns in memory latency when we tested it using Sisoft 2003 memory latency test. But in Business Winstone, it scored 39 marks whereas P 6N Diamond scored 42. This shows that the board is good not only for graphical work but also for business applications.

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It supports both Core 2 Duo and Quad Core processor and comes with the Intel P35 chipset. It has 4 inte¬grated D D R2 memory D IMMS that support up to 8 GB of RAM. It has 6 channel audio output onboard and also a FireWire 400 port. In addition to PCI x16 slots, the board offers SLI, so you can slam in another graphics card and get better performance. Overall, a mother¬board that is high on performance and features.