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MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Review
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Built upon the nVidia nForce3 Ultra chipset, the MSI K8N Neo2 supports the socket 939 AMD Athlon64 or AthlonFX processor, and will support up to 4GB of PC3200 DDR memory.
 82% Rating:   
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Oct 01 2004   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, AquaMark3

3DMark2001 Source: FutureMark

By combining DirectX8 support with completely new graphics, it continues to provide good overall system benchmarks. 3DMark2001 SE has been created in cooperation with the major 3D accelerator and processor manufacturers to provide a reliable set of diagnostic tools. The suite demonstrates 3D gaming performance by using real-world gaming technology to test a system's true performance abilities. Tests include: DirectX8 Vertex Shaders, Pixel Shaders and Point Sprites, DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, support for Full Scene Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression and two game tests using Ipion real-time physics. Higher 3DMark scores denote better performance.

3DMark2001 - Benchmark Results
Processors 3DMarks Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

21806
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 21958

Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)

22224
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 21739

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)

21348

If you're into benchmarking you're going to love Athlon64 systems, we've never seen anything like this before!

AquaMark3 Source: Massive Development

AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2003 and 2004.

AquaMark3 - Benchmark Results (Processor)
Processors Points Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

11141
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 10834

Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)

10812
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 10858

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)

10476

AquaMark3 - Benchmark Results (Overall)
Processors Points Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

48734
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 48599

Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)

49843
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 48522

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)

47928

AquaMark3 shows that all the motherboards perform pretty much identical to one another. You're certainly not going to be at a disadvantage when using an Athlon64 system!

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Contents of Article: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
 Pg 1.  MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Nvidia does RAID
 Pg 3.  nForce3 Ultra
 Pg 4.  The nVIDIA Firewall
 Pg 5.  Overclocking and the nVIDIA BIOS
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: SYSmark2004
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2002, Winbench 99
 Pg 8.  SiSoft Sandra 2004, Super Pi
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: PCMark2002, PCMark04
 Pg 10.  — Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, AquaMark3
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: Comanche 4, X2: The Threat
 Pg 12.  Benchmarks: UT2003, UT2004
 Pg 13.  Benchmarks: Doom 3 and Conclusion

 
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