* This motherboard is only rated "good" as the AGP is running overclocked by default.

Performance

Please take a look at the benchmark charts to get a better impression of the performance of the boards. When reading about excellent, good, average or mediocre, please take into account that the difference between the fastest and the slowest board (except Shuttle) is about 12-13% regarding the SYSmark runs and between 25 - 30% for the game benchmarks.

As power gamer, speed freak or professional user, you should take a closer look at the benchmarks. Standard Windows applications won't show any differences, so they should concentrate on their favorite features.

Reliability

A board is excellent if there was not one single issue during the tests. Good boards caused a maximum of two minor problems which were not important, e.g. stability issues with a heavily overclocked CPU or hang ups at hardcore timing settings. Mediocre means that there were at least three hang ups or blue screens. Poor boards did not even complete at least one benchmark run.