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MSI 850 Pro5 Pentium 4 Motherboard Review
MSI 850 Pro5 Pentium 4 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The MSI 850 Pro5 uses the i850 chipset and has support for Socket478 Pentium 4's running on a 100 MHz FSB.
 84% Rating:   
Filed under: Motherboards Published:  Author: 
External Mfg. Website: MSI May 18 2002   C. Sun  
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Test System & Benchmarks

pcstats test system specs:

computer hardware:

processor: Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
Clock Speed:

20x100 MHz = 2.0 GHz
20x112 MHz = 2.24 GHz

Motherboards: MSI 850 Pro5
Chipset: Intel i850
Videocard: nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4600
Sound Card: C-Media 8738 (Onboard)
Network Card:

N/A

Memory:

2x 128 MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM

Hard Drive: 40 GB Maxtor D740X Ultra/133
CDROM: Panasonic 48x CD-ROM CR-594-B
Floppy:

Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive

Heatsink: AVC Sunflower
PowerSupply: Antec 400W PSU
Software Setup Windows XP
Intel 3.40 INF's
DetonatorXP 28.90
DirectX 8.1
Benchmarks

SysMark 2001
SysMark 2002
Business Winstone 2001
Content Creation 2001
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro
PCMark2002

3DMark2001SE
Quake III Arena

BAPCO Sysmark 2001 Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SYSmark2001 uses real world applications concurrently as an accurate way to test the system by following patterns that reflect the way real users work. SYSmark2001's workloads accurately represent today's updated business usage model. The benchmark runs at a realistic execution speed, with think times between application interactions, in order to emulate a desktop user's interaction with the operating system and applications. Higher numbers denote better performance.

BapCo SysMark 2001 Benchmark Results
Internet Content Sysmarks Ranking
1.

850 Pro5 - 100 MHz FSB

218
2.

850 Pro5 - 112 MHz FSB

250

Office Productivity

1

850 Pro5 - 100 MHz FSB

172
2.

850 Pro5 - 112 MHz FSB

191

The 850 Pro5 does very well here in SysMark2001. Those are the highest Internet Content numbers we've ever seen! Judging by past P4 motherboard reviews, it seems that the RDRAM is very important to a Pentium 4's Office Productivity.

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Contents of Article: MSI 850 Pro5
 Pg 1.  MSI 850 Pro5 Pentium 4 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Scouting around the motherboard
 Pg 3.  MSI 850 Pro5 BIOS Features
 Pg 4.  — Test System & Benchmarks
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks; Bapco Sysmark 2002, Winstone
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks; Winbench 99, Sandra
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks; PCmark 2002, 3Dmark 2001
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks; QIII Arena & Conclusions

 
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