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MSI 845PE Max2-FIR Motherboard Review
MSI 845PE Max2-FIR Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Supports 2 GB of DDR, USB 2.0, Ultra DMA133 IDE RAID, 5.1 channel audio, Gigabit LAN, integrated IEEE 1394 Firewire and six PCI slots!
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Nov 14 2002   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002, Winstone 2002

pcstats test system specs:

computer hardware:

processor: pentium 4 2.66
clock speed:

20 x 133 mhz = 2.66 ghz

20 x 165 mhz = 3.30 ghz

motherboards: msi 845pe max2
chipset: intel i845pe
videocard:

msi g4ti4600-td

memory:

256mb corsair xms3500

hard drive: 40 gb samsung sp4004h
cdrom: nec 52x cd-rom
floppy:

panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive

heatsink: avc sunflower
powersupply: vantec 420w stealth psu
software setup windowsxp build 2600
intel inf 4.00
detonatorxp 30.82
benchmarks

sysmark 2002
business winstone 2002
content creation 2002
winbench 99
sisoft sandra 2002 pro
pcmark2002

3dmark2001se
quake iii arena

BAPCO Sysmark 2002 Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SysMark2002 is more of an extension of SysMark2001 rather then a whole new benchmark. The applications used during testing have been updated and most importantly for AMD users, the new SysMark2002 uses the Windows Media Encoder 7.1 which supports the AthlonXP's SSE instructions.

BapCo SysMark 2002 Benchmark Results
Internet Content (FSB/Memory) Sysmarks Ranking
1. 845PE Max2 - 133/333 349
2. 845PE Max2 - 165/330 417

Office Productivity (FSB/Memory)

1 845PE Max2 - 133/333 169
2. 845PE Max2 - 165/330 187

At stock speeds, the MSI 845PE Max2 performs very well and overclocking really boosts performance quite a bit!

Winstone 2002 Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP.

Business Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2002 Benchmark Results
Content Content Score Ranking
1. 845PE Max2 - 133/333 36.7
2. 845PE Max2 - 165/330 38.6

Business Winstone

1. 845PE Max2 - 133/333 23.9
2. 845PE Max2 - 165/330 28.6

At stock speeds, the MSI 845PE Max2 performs on par with what we would expect and overclocking brings a healthy performance boost.

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Contents of Article: MSI 845PE Max2-FIR
 Pg 1.  MSI 845PE Max2-FIR Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  The 845PE Max2-FIR - Feature Laden
 Pg 3.  Meet the i845PE chipset & overclock it
 Pg 4.  It's a Blue BIOS
 Pg 5.  — Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002, Winstone 2002
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: WinBench99, Sandra 2002
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark 2002, 3DMark 2001SE
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: QIII Arena
 Pg 9.  Blue BIOS, Red PCB - What's the final say?

 
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