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
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+)	29.1
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+)	30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	29.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	30.4
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840)	26.1
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840)	25.2
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840)	26.5
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840)	26.1
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840)	25.8
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium (NF 590 SLI 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.5
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.6
MSI 975X Platinum (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.7
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.3
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	31.9
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	31.6
MSI P965 Platinum (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.5
Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 (945G 200/667 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video)	32
Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.5
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+)	42
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+)	41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	41.2
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	41.7
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840)	33.2
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840)	32.6
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840)	33.3
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840)	33
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840)	34.2
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium (NF 590 SLI 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.8
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.6
MSI 975X Platinum (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.6
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.4
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.2
MSI P965 Platinum (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.5
Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 (945G 200/667 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video)	42.7
Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.3

The Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP does well in the Office Productivity tests as well, backing up what SYSMark2004 says. Realistically this motherboard is more than what you need for simple office tasks.

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:
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+)	48799	53396	21837	8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2	6688	6607
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+)	49031	53788	22011	8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2	6737	6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	48963	53456	22014	8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2	6694	6612
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	49006	53359	22011	8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2	6646	6565
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840)	35956	42846	17351	4601 FPU / 7913 SSE2	5097	5097
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840)	36082	42781	17356	4594 FPU / 7923 SSE2	5103	5106
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840)	35865	42555	17272	4582 FPU / 7880 SSE2	5036	5040
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840)	36212	42926	17400	4618 FPU / 7952 SSE2	5015	5020
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840)	36562	43384	17621	4668 FPU / 8036 SSE2	5183	5182
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium (NF 590 SLI 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	63545	71756	29211	7312 FPU / 10763 SSE2	5214	5175
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	62560	70920	28774	7228 SSE2 / 10672 SSE2	5643	5596
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	62807	71205	28923	7258 FPU / 10712 SSE2	5651	5599
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	63606	71990	29230	7361 FPU / 10793 SSE2	5593	5528
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	63045	71513	29014	7318 FPU / 10762 SSE2	5613	5578
MSI 975X Platinum (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	63124	71956	28962	7314 FPU / 10758 SSE2	5555	5484
MSI P965 Platinum (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	63218	71859	29063	7325 FPU / 10757 SSE2	5521	5486
Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 (945G 200/667 Core 2 Duo GMA950 Onboard Video)	62265	70603	28690	7176 FPU / 10639 SSE2	5098	5065
Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	62814	71756	29142	7328 FPU / 10785 SSE2	5618	5584
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

The Sandra results show that the Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP motherboard has the same power as the other Intel P965 Express motherboards tested recently.