Winbench 99 V1.2	Source: e-Testinglabs.com

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

WinBench 99 v1.2 Benchmark Results
	MSI 850 Pro5	Score	Ranking
1.	Business Disk - 100 MHz FSB	8190
1a.	Business Disk - 112 MHz FSB	8220
2.	High-End Disk - 100 MHz FSB	29000
2a.	High-End Disk - 112 MHz FSB	29000
3.	Business Graphics - 100 MHz FSB	589
3a.	Business Graphics - 112 MHz FSB	670
4.	High-End Graphics - 100 MHz FSB	981
4a.	High-End Graphics - 112 MHz FSB	1120

Here we see the 850 Pro 5 do very well in the disk benchmarks, overclocking doesn't really slow things down like on most other motherboards. The graphics portion of Winbench 99 though paints another story since the performance here isn't very good. Does this mean the MSI 850 Pro 5 will do poorly in 3D benchmarks?

Sisoft Sandra 2002	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

SiSoft Sandra 2001 Benchmark Results
	MSI 850 Pro5	Score
	Multimedia Benchmark
1.	Integer SSE - 100 MHz FSB	7937 it/s
1a.	Integer SSE - 112 MHz FSB	8817 it/s
2.	Floating-Point SSE - 100 MHz FSB	9875 it/s
2a.	Floating-Point SSE - 112 MHz FSB	10758 it/s
	CPU Benchmark
3.	Dhrystone ALU - 100 MHz FSB	3892 MIPS
3a.	Dhrystone ALU - 112 MHz FSB	4268 MIPS
4.	Whetstone FPU - 100 MHz FSB	1043 ALU/2447 SSE2 MFLOPS
4a.	Whetstone FPU - 112 MHz FSB	1160 ALU/2723 SSE2 MFLOPS
	Memory Benchmark
5.	Integer ALU - 100 MHz FSB	2512 MB/s
5a.	Integer ALU - 112 MHz FSB	2794 MB/s
6.	Float FPU - 100 MHz FSB	2509 MB/s
6a.	Float FPU - 112 MHz FSB	2792 MB/s

Here the 850 Pro5 with a 2 GHz Pentium 4 do better then the reference systems. When overclocked everything just gets sweeter.