ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe WiFi

Performance:

AI Clock Skew, ASUS OC Profile, Precision Tweaker, AI NOS, and PEG Link are among ASUS' intelligent overclocking tools available to its users. Linux users, however, are limited to the options found within the BIOS. Using the available options, we were easily able to accomplish running the AMD Athlon 64 4200+ at 2.893GHz 1.450V using 263MHz x 11, and DDR2-1052 at 5-5-5-15 with 2.20V. This overclock was certainly nice though it is not out of the ordinary considering ASUS' reputation for satisfying the needs of overclockers. Pushing the CPU any further would result in stability problems. For comparison throughout testing was the ASRock AM2NF4G-SATA2.

While NVIDIA has yet to provide Linux nForce drivers for the nForce 500 series (nor do we know if they will), the open-source drivers are certainly adequate when it comes to forcedeth and related components. After proceeding with a fresh install of Fedora Core 5 and updating available packages we had not run into any show-stopping problems. One of the short downfalls was with LM_Sensors being unable to detect the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe hardware sensors. The onboard 802.11g WiFi had also failed to work out of the box. As the ASUS array microphone simply uses a standard audio connection there were no problems with its Linux usage. Outside of the few areas that had sported Linux compatibility problems with the ASUS innovations the motherboard had worked fine as a whole with Fedora Core 5. The motherboard does also boast NVIDIA SLI support; however, Scalable Link Interface under Linux is less than satisfactory at this time so we opted against delivering SLI results on this motherboard at this time. The benchmarks used consisted of Enemy Territory, Doom 3, HDparm, Gzip Compression, LAME Compilation, LAME Encoding, FreeBench, and RAMspeed.