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 Creation	Points	Ranking
Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	58.3
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	58.6
Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	58.4
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	58.4
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)	57.8
Business Winstone	Points	Ranking
Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	46.6
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	46.4
Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	46.4
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	47.4
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)	46.9

As you can see, Winstone 2002 benchmarks all the systems pretty close. It's interesting to see that once overclocked, the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum system performs slower than at stock speeds. This is due to the lower overall CPU speed and memory bandwidth.

Winbench 99	Source: Zdnet

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 - Benchmark Results
Business Disk	Points	Ranking
Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	10800
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	19600
Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	17200
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	19400
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)	18400
High-End Disk	Points	Ranking
Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	37000
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	43300
Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	31400
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	41000
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)	37600
Business Graphics	Points	Ranking
Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	1600
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	1490
Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	1660
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	1580
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)	1520
High End Graphics	Points	Ranking
Asus A8V (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	2550
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro, 200/400)	2460
Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	2570
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 200/400)	2530
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra, 236/392)	2490

HDD performance from the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum is excellent, but we see here that stock performance is better than when the system is overclocked.