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By averaging the performance by category, we can more easily see where a specific motherboard might dominate.

A variety of second and third place finishes allowed the Asus P5QL Pro to take the overall performance lead in games.

MSI’s tiny default overclock allowed it to excel in media encoding, after finishing several benchmarks in a first-place tie.

By leading our file compression tests, Jetway and Biostar take easy wins in overall productivity.

The Asus P5QL Pro had the best overall performance, but with less than a tenth of a percent separating it from the ASRock P45XE. Last place ECS G45T-M2 finished well within 2% of the lead, even with its slower memory setting.

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V3NOM 12/24/2008 9:10 AM
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cangelini 12/24/2008 9:42 AM
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FWIW, the issue with text disappearing from the commenting box as you're typing is something I've reported and m waiting for a fix still. Thanks for confirming that it's still an issue.

rjcorrin 12/24/2008 11:16 AM
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jsc 12/24/2008 11:38 AM
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"What is a >$100 board going to give me?

I have a DS3P becuae i need the exrta SATA ports.

anonymous 12/24/2008 12:11 PM
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I run the I.T. department for a couple small businesses, and the sub $100 motherboard is almost essential in today's economy. Sure I could use a $120-$150 motherboard, DDR3, 10000 RPM hard drive, and all kinds of other things, but I would end up with a system that is only marginal faster in business applications for 3+ times the price. Take one of the G3x or G4x motherboards, 2GB DDR2, Intel E7x00 CPU and 80GB+ HDD and you have a system that will meet the needs of a good majority of businesses and home users. I am personally a gamer and can see the value in the higher end components; but there are a lot of other market segments out there where this makes financial sense.

rjcorrin 12/24/2008 12:17 PM
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rjcorrin 12/24/2008 1:02 PM
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gaiden2k7 12/24/2008 1:06 PM
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I got a Gigabyte UD3P for $99 during black friday... would that top this list? :)

Noya 12/24/2008 1:27 PM
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malveaux 12/24/2008 1:28 PM
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gwolfman 12/24/2008 1:46 PM
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lol @ rjcorrin's 1st comment.

In reply: Maybe he already had HDDs laying around of smaller size and thought it best to save money by spending a few more dollars on more SATA ports than hundreds on new 3 x 1TB HDDs. You're reasoning is asinine and self contradicting.

Tindytim 12/24/2008 1:47 PM
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rjcorrin :
Did you happen to notice that the comment box detects your errors and underlines them in red?


Did you happen to notice you're using Firefox? It, not this comment box, does that.

rjcorrin :
"I have a DS3P becuae i need the exrta SATA ports."The DS3L has 4 Sata ports which could easily handle 3 terabytes and a DVD drive. You could have saved money by editing down your porn collection and deleting your stolen .iso's of the entire "Friday the 13th" collection.


And what about Raid? And all the PC's I've had in this Millennium have had 2 Removable Disk drives.

Not to mention I have multiple OSes installed, and an extra drive I use for storage (I reformat often). So I have plenty of drives.

gwolfman 12/24/2008 2:11 PM
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Ummm, maybe I missed it but I didn't see anywhere that said what video/graphics card was used in these test. Anyone!?! I'm curious because of the power consumption numbers. Thanks.

cambion 12/24/2008 2:14 PM
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Attention to detail alert... The MSI Neo3-f has eight SATA ports not, as the article claims, six.

rjcorrin 12/24/2008 2:18 PM
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rjcorrin 12/24/2008 2:20 PM
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cambion :
Attention to detail alert... The MSI Neo3-f has eight SATA ports not, as the article claims, six.



This is the exact number of ports on the DS3P. So, again, what does a >$100 board going to give me?

tmc 12/24/2008 2:24 PM
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Though this does give you an what our Taiwan & Chinese friends have in the goodie bin at the local computer store.. you will still want to wait to bu

tmc 12/24/2008 2:26 PM
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tmc :
Though this does give you an what our Taiwan & Chinese friends have in the goodie bin at the local computer store.. you will still want to wait to bu


Ugh, got cut off..
Wait to build your system until Q1, Q2 processor price cuts of 2009.. especially if you have your heart set on $ inTEL $ 775 vs amd.

rjcorrin 12/24/2008 2:29 PM
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