PCStats Test System Specs:

processor: amd athlon64 3200+ clock speed: 10 x 200 mhz = 2 ghz 10 x 225 mhz = 2.25 ghz motherboards: msi k8t neo via k8t800 albatron k8x800 pro ii via k8t800 soltek sl-k8an-rl nforce3 150 chaintech zenith znf3-150 nforce3 150 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 sysmark2002 business winstone 2002 content creation 2002 winbench 99 sisoft sandra 2004 pcmark2002 3dmark2001se quake iii arena ut2003

BAPCO Sysmark 2002	Source:FutureMark / BAPco

SysMark2002 is more of an extension of SysMark2001 rather then a whole new benchmark. The applications used during testing have been updated and most importantly for AMD users, the new SysMark2002 uses the Windows Media Encoder 7.1 which supports the AthlonXP's SSE instructions.

BapCo SysMark 2002 Benchmark Results
	Internet Content	Sysmarks	Ranking
1.	A64 3200+/MSI K8T Neo (200/400)	367
2.	A64 3200+/Albatron K8X800 (200/400)	362
3.	A64 3200+/Soltek SL-K8AN-RL (200/400)	378
4.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(200/400)	375
5.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(225/450)	425
	Office Productivity
1	A64 3200+/MSI K8T Neo (200/400)	241
2.	A64 3200+/Albatron K8X800 (200/400)	241
3.	A64 3200+/Soltek SL-K8AN-RL (200/400)	245
4.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(200/400)	243
4.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(225/450)	264

The Chaintech Zenith NF3-150 performs pretty well in Sysmark 2002, topping the VIA K8T800 based motherboards and performing in line with the Soltek SL-K8AN-RL.

Winstone 2002	Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP.

Business Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2002 Benchmark Results
	Content Content	Score	Ranking
1.	A64 3200+/MSI K8T Neo (200/400)	55.4
2.	A64 3200+/Albatron K8X800 (200/400)	55.2
3.	A64 3200+/Soltek SL-K8AN-RL (200/400)	55.2
4.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(200/400)	55.9
5.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(225/450)	60.3
	Business Winstone
1	A64 3200+/MSI K8T Neo (200/400)	39.6
2.	A64 3200+/Albatron K8X800 (200/400)	39.3
3.	A64 3200+/Soltek SL-K8AN-RL (200/400)	40.2
4.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(200/400)	40
5.	A64 3200+/Chaintech Zenith NF3-150(225/450)	44.5

Just like we saw in SysMark 2002, the Chaintech Zenith motherboard performs very well here in the Winstone 2002 benchmarks.