Winstone 2004	Source: Zdnet

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.

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.

Winstone 2004
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	27.3
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	29.1
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	30.3
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	32.7
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	32.2
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	31.2
ECS KN1 Extreme SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	31.9
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	32.1
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	36.2
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	36.4
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	39.5
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	39.7
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	39.7
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	39.6
ECS KN1 Extreme SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	39.6
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	39.3

Winstone 2004 results among the reference motherboards are quite close. One thing is clear though, the AMD Athlon64 is a quick workstation platform and the nForce 4 chipset really does dominate.

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
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	10700
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	13600
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	27900
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	26300
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	27100
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	26400
ECS KN1 Extreme SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	15000
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	27800
High-End Disk WinMark:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	38500
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	46800
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	62900
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	61200
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	60700
Epox 9NPA+ SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	61700
ECS KN1 Extreme SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400)	61600
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	61700

nVIDIA hard drive performance has always been pretty nice. In Winbench the MSI K8N Diamond Plus performs exactly as expected.