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MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Review
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum has thee regular 32bit PCI slots, two PCI Express x1 slots, and one PCI Express x16 slot for your videocard. The four dual channel memory slots support DDR-2 533MHz memory.
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Nov 03 2004   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3

Unreal Tournament 2004

Source: Epic

Unreal Tournament 2004 is the sequel to the highly popular UT2003 and uses the very latest Unreal Engine technology. Unreal Tournament 2004 employs the use of Vertex and Pixel Shaders and it's recommended that you use a DirectX 9 videocard to you plan to play competitively.

UT2004 - 640x480
dm-rankin FPS Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) 90.13
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) 83.48
as-convoy FPS Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) 64.81
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) 57.92
ctf-bridgeoffate FPS Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) 134.09
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) 119.36

In the UT2004 tests, we see the MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum motherboard trail behind the Gigabyte i925X board by quite a bit in all three parts of the benchmark.

Doom 3

Source: id Software

Doom 3 is the most advanced OpenGL game to date, it takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limits. At its highest setting Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrows videocards will have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three times and with the third run being recorded.

Doom3
LQ 640x480 FPS Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) 88.5
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 81.4
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) 83.6

Ahhh Doom 3, friendly Doom 3! To stress the system irregardless of the videocard, the resolution and image quality are dialed down as low as possible. From the results, we see that the MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum performs about midway between the two reference boards. One thing is for sure, the MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum will keep hardcore gamers happy!

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Contents of Article: MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum
 Pg 1.  MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Passive MOSFET Cooling
 Pg 3.  MSI's Installation Tool
 Pg 4.  System Spec's and Benchmarks
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2004, Super Pi
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: AquaMark3, Comanche 4
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: X2: The Threat. UT2003
 Pg 10.  — Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3
 Pg 11.  Maximum Motherboard Overclocking and Conclusions

 
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