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Synthetic numbers are simply the best way to show you the exact difference between timings and frequencies. Something that is very hard to show with games. Above three separate CPU tests with (as comparison) some Athlons kicked in there on purpose. This is the one these things where Athlons rock in Floating Point performance. FPU performance is a tad off as it is known to be a bottle neck for Core 2 Duo processors. Overall that's still mighty performance.

Once we overclock and thus raise that FSB we again see performance go up fast, but not even close to the Fx-62 processor on the nForce 590 SLI mainboard.

Here we force a ZLIB emulation on the system, basically in simple wording advanced (de)compression. It's used very often. Right now you are reading content on Guru3D.com, the page you are reading right now is compressed with ZLIB. After compressing it on our server-end we transmit the data towards you and your PC will decompress the HTML page. This saves on bandwidth and speeds up page loading times.

Compared to the nForce 590 AMD and Intel system we see pretty similar performance. But again have a look at the two results on the right. The overclock session.

I stipulate this overclocking so much as this is what the mainboard has been built for as well, this board should offer good overclocking performance and it certainly shows. It's also why you pay so much money for it. So that's should definitely be a focus in this review.