SYSmark2004	Source: Bapco

SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark 2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may encounter. In addition to extensive validation across multiple platforms, users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.

SYSmark2004
Internet Overall:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	218
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	212
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	236
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	232
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	234
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	232
3D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	212
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	207
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	217
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	208
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	218
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	217
2D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	264
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	258
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	293
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	291
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	292
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	292
Web Publication	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	187
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	175
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	206
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	206
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	201
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	204
Office Overall:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	207
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	210
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	218
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	219
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	219
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	218
Communication:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	212
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	233
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	247
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	245
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	242
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	245
Document Creation:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	223
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	218
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	224
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	226
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	224
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	224
Data Analysis:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	188
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	182
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	187
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	189
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	195
ECS KN1-SLI Extreme (NF4 SLI 200/400)	192

All platforms perform approximately the same here in SYSMark2004, no matter what you buy, budget or high end you will get good performance from the AMD Athlon64 processor!