Office Productivity	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.

Office Productivity
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+)	29.1
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+)	30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	29.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	30.4
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840)	26.1
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840)	25.2
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840)	26.5
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840)	26.1
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840)	25.8
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	32.3
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	31.9
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	31.6
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+)	42
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+)	41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	41.2
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+)	41.7
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840)	33.2
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840)	32.6
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840)	33.3
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840)	33
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840)	34.2
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.4
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo)	43.2

The Intel Core 2 Duo and P965 Express platform makes for a very quick office machine. The low price of the Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H makes it a compelling workstation motherboard. Again the Core 2 Duo based P965 Express platforms all perform at near identical levels, cost and features are the only major differentiating points at play here.