ASUS CUSL2 Socket-370 i815E ATX Mainboard

Test System 1

Processor:
  • Intel 733MHz Pentium III
Motherboard :
  • ASUS CUSL2 Motherboard
Graphics Card:
  • Guillemot MaxiGamer Xentor NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra 175/183MHz
Memory :
  • 1 x 128MB Corsair PC133 SDRAM
Hard Drive :
  • Western Digital Caviar 20GB ATA-66 Hard Drive
Sound Card:
  • Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Operating System:
  • Windows 98 SE

 

Test System 2

Processor:
  • Intel 733MHz Pentium III
Motherboard :
  • Gigabyte GA-7VX KX133
Graphics Card:
  • Guillemot MaxiGamer Xentor NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra 175/183MHz
Memory :
  • 1 x 128MB Corsair PC133 SDRAM
Hard Drive :
  • Western Digital Caviar 20GB ATA-66 Hard Drive
Sound Card:
  • Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Operating System:
  • Windows 98 SE

 

Test System 3

Processor:
  • Intel 733MHz Pentium III
Motherboard :
  • ASUS P3V4X Motherboard
Graphics Card:
  • Guillemot MaxiGamer Xentor NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra 175/183MHz
Memory :
  • 1 x 128MB Corsair PC133 SDRAM
Hard Drive :
  • Western Digital Caviar 20GB ATA-66 Hard Drive
Sound Card:
  • Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Operating System:
  • Windows 98 SE

SYSMark utilizes programs such as Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Premier 5.1, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 4.0, Corel CorelDraw 9.0, Microsoft Excel 2000, Netscape Communicator 4.61, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, and Microsoft Word 2000 and a few more other programs. As you can see from the programs itself this really stresses every ounce of power from your system. As you can see from the results the ASUS CUSL2 board is quite ahead of both other boards.

The performance of this test goes on to show how good a board is in business applications. As you can see even though it’s marginal the ASUS CUSL2 is still ahead of the others.

Quake III Arena

We ran quake III Arena in normal settings. Keep in mind though we ran these tests with sound on, which reduces the fps figure by quite a margin. We found it impractical to do benchmarks without sound since, end of the day what really matters is how the board will perform in the real world. It’s unlikely that anyone would play Quake III or any other game to that matter without any sound.

As you can see the CUSL2 is well ahead of both other boards in the criteria. It shows us what a high performance and stable board this really is.

Here too the CUSL2 is in the lead, however an overclocked BX board might be able to beat this figure, but then it isn’t a fair comparison now is it. If the CUSL2 is overclocked as well then it’s sure to beat the BX boards by far.

Our Score

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