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MSI K8N Neo3-F Motherboard Review
MSI K8N Neo3-F Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
This motherboard supports all AMD Athlon64 and Sempron Socket 754 processors and up to 2GB of single-channel DDR memory.
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Jun 20 2005   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99

Winstone 2004 Source: Zdnet

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.

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2004
Business Winstone 2004: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 27
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 28.6
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 29.4
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 27.3
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 32.1
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 30.3
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 28.6
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 32.2
AOpen n250a-FR (NF3 250 200/400) A64 3200+ 27.1
Asus K8N4-E DLX (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 26
MSI K8N Neo3-F (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 26.5
Content Creation 2004: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 34.7
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 37.2
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 35.9
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 36.2
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 39.2
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 39.5
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 35.1
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 39.7
AOpen n250a-FR (NF3 250 200/400) A64 3200+ 32.3
Asus K8N4-E DLX (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 33.7
MSI K8N Neo3-F (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 33.6

The MSI K8N Neo3-F does quite well in the Winstone 2004 benchmarks, again besting the Socket 754 competition slightly.

Winbench 99 Source: Zdnet

WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphical, 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 XP systems.

Winbench 99
Business Disk WinMark: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 30000
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 9990
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 19200
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 10700
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 28200
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 27900
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 4060
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 27100
AOpen n250a-FR (NF3 250 200/400) A64 3200+ 18900
Asus K8N4-E DLX (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 26300
MSI K8N Neo3-F (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 27700
High-End Disk WinMark: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 51800
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 34900
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 42600
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 38500
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 61500
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 62900
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 31900
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 60700
AOpen n250a-FR (NF3 250 200/400) A64 3200+ 35800
Asus K8N4-E DLX (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 60100
MSI K8N Neo3-F (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 59500
Business Graphics WinMark: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 1580
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 1700
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 1560
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 1640
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 1620
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 1690
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 916
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 1680
AOpen n250a-FR (NF3 250 200/400) A64 3200+ 1420
Asus K8N4-E DLX (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 1470
MSI K8N Neo3-F (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 1320
High-End Graphics WinMark: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 2470
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 2650
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 2480
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 2560
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 2600
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 2570
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 2130
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 2600
AOpen n250a-FR (NF3 250 200/400) A64 3200+ 2140
Asus K8N4-E DLX (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 2180
MSI K8N Neo3-F (NF4-4X 200/400) A64 3200+ 2130

It's nice to see that HDD performance between all nForce4 motherboards is the same. Graphics numbers seem a bit on the low side in this test, but we'll wait for the 3D benchmarks before we start to judge things.

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Contents of Article: MSI K8N Neo3-F
 Pg 1.  MSI K8N Neo3-F Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  What's an AGR video slot?
 Pg 3.  The MSI Neo3-F BIOS
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: SYSmark2004
 Pg 5.  — Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: 3DMark05, Comanche 4
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: X2: The Threat, UT2003
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3
 Pg 11.  Conclusion: A Good Upgrade Option

 
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