The results are actually quite natural. ASUS A8V-E Deluxe mainboard lost to its competitors on NVIDIA nForce4 based chipsets in all benchmarks. In fact, we didn’t expect a different outcome, because this board uses 2T Memory Timing setting, which cannot be changed.

To be fair, we should mention that the low performance of ASUS A8V-E Deluxe in our test session doesn’t mean that the VIA K8T890 chipset is a bad solution. These results are first of all illustrating that ASUS engineers could have done a better job on their ASUS A8V-E Deluxe mainboard.