Office Productivity	Source: Zdnet

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.

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
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	27.3
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	29.1
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	31.6
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	30.3
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	31.5
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	32.7
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	32.2
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	30.6
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	36.2
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	36.4
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	38.4
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	39.5
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	39
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	39.7
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	39.7
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	37.5

The Office Productivity numbers from the ECS RS480-M are slightly lower than that of the nForce4 powered motherboards. The ECS platform is in line with what we saw from an earlier ATi RS480-based motherboard.

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
Motherboards	Integer SSE2:	Floating-Point SSE2:	Dhrystone SSE2:	Whetstone SSE2:	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	22638	24441	10773	3897 FPU / 5066 SSE2	5993	5944
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	22605	24364	10910	3750 FPU / 4845 SSE2	5896	5853
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Xpress 1600 200/400)	22846	24683	10033	3685 FPU / 4918 SSE2	5946	5922
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (Uli M1695 200/400)	22744	24599	10221	3786 FPU / 4903 SSE2	6081	6037
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	22954	24693	11055	3770 FPU / 4920 SSE2	6071	6031
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	22938	24675	10053	3797 FPU / 4918 SSE2	6043	5997
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	22934	24671	10048	3794 FPU / 4913 SSE2	6078	6045
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	22943	24682	10055	3798 FPU / 4920 SSE2	6132	6060
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4- SLI 200/400)	22893	24716	10981	3941 FPU / 5118 SSE2	6105	6050
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	22812	24463	10956	3912 FPU / 4985 SSE2	6012	5956
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

The processor and bandwidth results offer nothing surprising. Looks like ATi tweaked the silicon a bit, the bandwidth numbers are about 100MB/s faster than the results for the MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard.

Super Pi	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.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits:	Seconds	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	35
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	36
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	35
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	35
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	35
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	34
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	35
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	35

The ECS RS480-M has a strong showing in Super Pi and completes the test in 35 seconds. That is a very fast time.