PCStats Test System Specs:

processor: amd athlon64 3200+ clock speed: 10 x 200 mhz = 2 ghz 10 x 223 mhz = 2.23 ghz motherboards: msi k8t neo via k8t800 albatron k8x800 pro ii via k8t800 soltek sl-k8an-rl nforce3 150 abit kv8-max3 via k8t800 videocard: ati radeon 9800 pro memory: 2x 256mb corsair twinx3200ll hard drive: 40gb western digital special ed. cdrom: nec 52x cd-rom powersupply: vantec 470w stealth psu software setup windowsxp build 2600 via 4in1 4.49 catalyst 3.7 workstation benchmarks sysmark 2004 business winstone 2002 content creation 2002 winbench 99 sisoft sandra 2004 super pi pcmark2002 3dmark2001se aquamark3 comanche 4 x2: the threat ut2003

- please note that because of time constraints, not all motherboards were available for the new benchmarks.

SYSmark 2004	Source: Bapco

SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark 2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may encounter. In addition with extensive validation across multiple platforms, users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.

SYSmark 2004 Benchmark Results
Internet Overall	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	187
3D Creation	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	181
2D Creation	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	217
Web Publication	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	166

SYSmark 2004 Benchmark Results
Office Overall	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	170
Communication	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	186
Document Creation	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	181
Data Analysis	Points	Ranking
ABIT KV8-MAX3	145

The SYSmark scores are pretty good here.