MSI K9N Diamond nForce 590 SLI Motherboard Review If you're a gamer, multimedia enthusiast, or future indie rock star mixing tracks for your debute CD, the MSI K9N Diamond is a board well worth your attention.  80% Rating:    Table of Contents Filed under: Motherboards Published:  Author:  External Mfg. Website: MSI Dec 29 2006   Max Page   Home > Reviews > Motherboards > MSI K9N Diamond

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	26.1
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	27.4
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	25.8
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	29.1
ECS KA3 MVP Extreme (CF3200 200/800)	30.2
Asus M2R32-MVP (CF3200 200/800)	30.6
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	29.6
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	30.4
MSI K9N Diamond (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	33
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	33.8
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	34.2
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	42
ECS KA3 MVP Extreme (CF3200 200/800)	41.5
Asus M2R32-MVP (CF3200 200/800)	42.4
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	41.2
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	41.7
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.7
MSI K9N Diamond (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.6

The office productivity numbers are in line with what we expect from other Socket AM2 motherboards. The MSI K9N Diamond is equally strong at office applications as shown by these results.

SiSoft Sandra 2005	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
	Multimedia Benchmark		CPU Benchmark		Memory Benchmark
Motherboard	Integer SSE2:	Floating-Point SSE2:	Dhrystone SSE2:	Whetstone SSE2:	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	36212	42926	17400	4618 FPU / 7952 SSE2	5015	5020
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	36005	42695	16953	4596 FPU / 7899 SSE2	5087	5087
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	36562	43384	17621	4668 FPU / 8036 SSE2	5183	5182
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	48799	53396	21837	8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2	6688	6607
ECS KA3 MVP Extreme (RD580 200/800)	49012	53476	22006	8247 FPU / 10714 SSE2	6715	6602
Asus M2R32-MVP (CF3200 200/800)	48863	53412	22015	8264 FPU / 10697 SSE2	6704	6629
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	49031	53788	22011	8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2	6737	6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	48963	53456	22014	8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2	6694	6612
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	48961	53579	22012	8255 FPU / 10687 SSE2	6637	6548
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	48879	53535	21910	8224 FPU / 10651 SSE2	6666	6594
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	49006	53359	22011	8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2	6646	6565
MSI K9N Diamond (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	48915	53745	22008	8257 FPU / 10724 SSE2	6653	6572
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

The MSI K9N Diamond scores pretty well here. Memory bandwidth is nice and high. So far the motherboard performs exactly as expected.

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