Winstone 2004	Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP. Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2004
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/533)	25.2
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/533)	26.5
Epox 5NVA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/667)	26.3
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/667)	26.1
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/533)	32.6
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/533)	33.3
Epox 5NVA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/667)	32.8
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/667)	33

Things are too close to call in the Winstone 2004 benchmarks and all motherboards perform roughly the same which is a good sign.

Winbench 99	Source: Zdnet

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

WinBench 99
Business Disk WinMark:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/533)	13400
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/533)	14600
Epox 5NVA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/667)	20900
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/667)	21800
High-End Disk WinMark:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/533)	58000
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/533)	60700
Epox 5NVA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/667)	56700
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/667)	58000
Business Graphics WinMark:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/533)	792
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/533)	958
Epox 5NVA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/667)	931
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/667)	859
High-End Graphics WinMark:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/533)	1460
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/533)	1690
Epox 5NVA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/667)	1670
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/667)	1560

nVIDIA has always been good with HDD performance and here we see the board outperform the Intel counter parts. All systems are being tested with quick Western Digital 74GB Raptor hard drives.