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
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	26.1
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	27.4
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	25.8
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	29.1
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	29.6
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	30.4
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	33
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	33.8
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	34.2
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	42
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	41.2
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.7
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	41.7

Office Productivity numbers also put the Epox EP-MF570 SLI motherboard in a good light for a socket AM2 based platform. If you're going to mainly use your PC for office applications, workstation tasks and things of that nature there's no need to blow a lot of money on an expensive motherboard geared towards gaming.

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:
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	36212	42926	17400	4618 FPU / 7952 SSE2	5015	5020
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	36005	42695	16953	4596 FPU / 7899 SSE2	5087	5087
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	36562	43384	17621	4668 FPU / 8036 SSE2	5183	5182
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	48799	53396	21837	8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2	6688	6607
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	49031	53788	22011	8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2	6737	6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	48963	53456	22014	8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2	6694	6612
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	48879	53535	21910	8224 FPU / 10651 SSE2	6666	6594
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	49006	53359	22011	8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2	6646	6565
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	48961	53579	22012	8255 FPU / 10687 SSE2	6637	6548
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

SiSoft Sandra numbers are inline with what we would expect from a high performance socket AM2 Athlon64 X2 system. The EP-MF570 SLI motherboard really holds its own.

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
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	39
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	40
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	39
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	34
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	34
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	33
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	33
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	33
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	33

Do you see the trend here? No matter what socket AM2 Athlon64 motherboard you consider, performance is a factor of the processor. In each case here, PCSTATS is testing with the same socket AM2 AMD Athlon X2 5000+ chip which is why the results are static.