ASUS CUSL2 Socket-370 i815E ATX Mainboard Manufacturer : ASUS Reviewed by: Date : July 20th 2000

The Tests Cont'd

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.

Table of contents

Introduction	The Tests
Specifications	The Tests Cont'd
The Bios	Conclusion
The Board