Asus CrossHair NF590 SLI: Republic of Gamers

Name: Asus CrossHair NF590 SLI: Republic of Gamers - Page 5
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 11:00 PM EDT

PC World Magazine's WorldBench 5.0 is a new breed of Business and Professional application benchmark, that has replaced the aging and no-longer supported Content Creation and Business Winstone tests in our suite. WorldBench 5.0 consists of a number of performance modules that each utilize one, or a group of popular applications to gauge performance.

WorldBench 5.0: Office XP SP2 & Photoshop 7 Modules

Real-World Application Performance

Below we have the results from WB 5's Office XP SP2 and Photoshop 7 modules, recorded in seconds. Lower times indicate better performance here, so the shorter the bar the better.

In both the Office XP and Photoshop 7 Worldbench modules, the Asus CrossHair put up slightly better numbers than the M2N32-SLI. In the Office test, the CrossHair finished 3 seconds faster and in the Photoshop test is finished 4 seconds faster. The Core 2 machine was fastest overall, however, by a wide margin.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com