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		| 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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 Benchmarks: PCMark2002, PCMark04
 PCMark 
can be used on desktop PC's, Laptops and even 
Workstations and tests everyday computing from 
home to office usage. PCMark specifically stresses the CPU, memory subsystem, graphics subsystem, hard 
drives, WindowsXP GUI (if WinXP is used), video performance and even laptop batteries.  
 
  
  
    | PCMark 2002 - Benchmark Results |  
    | Processor | PCMarks | Ranking |  
    | Asus A8V (K8T800 
      Pro, 200/400) | 8393 |    |  
    | MSI K8T 
      Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) | 8146 |    |  
    | Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 7875 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 7879 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392) | 7693 |    |  
    | Memory | PCMarks | Ranking |  
    | Asus A8V (K8T800 
      Pro, 200/400) | 12104 |    |  
    | MSI K8T 
      Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) | 11856 |    |  |
 
    | Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 11134 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 11182 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392) | 10677 |    |  At stock 
speeds the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum scores pretty well, not quite as high as the 
VIA K8T800 Pro motherboards, but pretty close. 
 PCMark04 
is the latest version of the popular PCMark series. PCMark04 is an 
application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real 
applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically 
created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to 
report very accurate results.  
  
  
    | PCMark04 - Benchmark Results |  
    | Overall | PCMarks | Ranking |  
    | Asus A8V (K8T800 
      Pro, 200/400) | 4896 |    |  
    | MSI K8T 
      Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) | 4884 |    |  
    | Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 4888 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 4859 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392) | 4667 |    |  
    | Processor | PCMarks | Ranking |  
    | Asus A8V (K8T800 
      Pro, 200/400) | 4537 |    |  
    | MSI K8T 
      Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) | 4469 |    |  
    | Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 4345 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 4548 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392) | 4103 |    |  
    | Memory | PCMarks | Ranking |  
    | Asus A8V (K8T800 
      Pro, 200/400) | 5555 |    |  
    | MSI K8T 
      Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) | 5598 |    |  
    | Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 5583 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) | 5562 |    |  
    | MSI K8N Neo2 
      Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392) | 5087 |    |  Stock 
performance of the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum is very good, and it keeps up with some 
very fast Athlon64 motherboards! 
 
			
			 
			
			
						 
  
		
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