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MSI P6N Diamond nForce 680i Motherboard Review
MSI P6N Diamond nForce 680i Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Believe it or not, there are high performance motherboards out there for Intel's latest and greatest CPUs which don't have an Intel chipset at their heart. Top of that list is the nVidia nForce 680i.
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Motherboard Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi

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:
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) 48799 53396 21837 8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2 6688 6607
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) 49031 53788 22011 8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2 6737 6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 48963 53456 22014 8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2 6694 6612
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 49006 53359 22011 8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2 6646 6565
ECS PN2 SLI2+ (NF 680i SLI 266/800 C2D E6600) 63621 71847 29035 7322 FPU / 10783 SSE2 5318 5275
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium (NF 590 SLI 266/800 C2D E6600) 63545 71756 29211 7312 FPU / 10763 SSE2 5214 5175
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 266/800 C2D E6600) 62560 70920 28774 7228 SSE2 / 10672 SSE2 5643 5596
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 62807 71205 28923 7258 FPU / 10712 SSE2 5651 5599
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 266/800 Core 2 Duo) 63606 71990 29230 7361 FPU / 10793 SSE2 5593 5528
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 C2D E6600) 63045 71513 29014 7318 FPU / 10762 SSE2 5613 5578
MSI 975X Platinum (975X 266/800 C2D E6600) 63124 71956 28962 7314 FPU / 10758 SSE2 5555 5484
MSI P965 Platinum (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 63218 71859 29063 7325 FPU / 10757 SSE2 5521 5486
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 62715 70963 28863 7212 FPU / 10706 SSE2 5595 5534
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 (P35 266/1066 C2D E6600) 63241 71685 29147 7332 FPU / 10763 SSE2 5896 5906
MSI P35 Platinum (P35 266/1066 C2D E6600) 62900 71322 28912 7265 FPU / 10717 SSE2 5852 5846
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066 C2D E6750) 69834 79153 32215 7885 FPU / 11920 SSE2 6737 6706
MSI P35 Platinum (P35 333/1066 C2D E6750) 70006 79055 32168 8078 FPU / 11914 SSE2 6531 6518
Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe (333/1333 C2D E6750) 69693 78991 32125 8058 FPU / 11893 SSE2 6612 6571
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066 C2D E6750) 70025 79163 32263 8046 FPU / 11906 SSE2 6578 6537

Units:

it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

The processor numbers from the MSI P6N Diamond motherboard are nice and strong, memory bandwidth results are slightly lower than we would have expected. Let's see what happens in the other benchmarks.

Super Pi Mod 1.5 Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportSuperPi
1 Million Digits: Seconds Ranking
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) 34
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) 34
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 33
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 33
ECS PN2 SLI2+ (NF 680i SLI 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium (NF 590 SLI 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
MSI 975X Platinum (975X 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 21
MSI P965 Platinum (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (P965 266/800 C2D E6600) 20
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 (P35 266/1066 C2D E6600) 20
MSI P35 Platinum (P35 266/1066 C2D E6600) 20
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066 C2D E6750 New BIOS) 18
MSI P35 Platinum (P35 333/1066 C2D E6750) 18
Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe (P35 333/1333 C2D E6750) 19
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066 C2D E6750) 18

Even with the "lack" of memory bandwidth according to SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi times are very good indeed.

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Contents of Article: MSI P6N Diamond
 Pg 1.  MSI P6N Diamond nForce 680i Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  MSI P6N Diamond Motherboard Highlights
 Pg 3.  The nVIDIA nForce 680i Chipset
 Pg 4.  Overclocking the Diamond
 Pg 5.  Motherboard Benchmarks: Sysmark 2004
 Pg 6.  Motherboard Benchmarks: Sysmark 2004 Continued
 Pg 7.  Motherboard Benchmarks: PC Worldbench (Graphics)
 Pg 8.  Motherboard Benchmarks: PC Worldbench (Office)
 Pg 9.  Motherboard Benchmarks: PC Worldbench (Data Crunching)
 Pg 10.  — Motherboard Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 11.  Motherboard Benchmarks: PCMark05
 Pg 12.  Motherboard Benchmarks: 3DMark05, 3DMark06
 Pg 13.  Motherboard Benchmarks: FarCry, Doom 3., Quake 4
 Pg 14.  PCSTATS Maximum Motherboard Overclocking Chart & Conclusions

 
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