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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: Winstone 2002, Winbench 99

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 Creation Points Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

58.3
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 58.6

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

58.4
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 58.4

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

57.8

Business Winstone

Points

Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

46.6

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

46.4

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

46.4
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 47.4

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

46.9

As you can see, Winstone 2002 benchmarks all the systems pretty close. It's interesting to see that once overclocked, the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum system performs slower than at stock speeds. This is due to the lower overall CPU speed and memory bandwidth.

Winbench 99 Source: Zdnet

WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphics, disk, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. WinBench 99's tests can run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Me systems.

Winbench 99 - Benchmark Results
Business Disk Points Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

10800
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 19600

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

17200
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 19400

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

18400

High-End Disk

Points

Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

37000

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 43300

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

31400
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 41000

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

37600

Business Graphics

Points

Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

1600
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 1490

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

1660
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 1580

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

1520

High End Graphics

Points

Ranking

Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)

2550
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400) 2460

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

2570
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400) 2530

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

2490

HDD performance from the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum is excellent, but we see here that stock performance is better than when the system is overclocked.

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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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