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
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	26.1
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	27.4
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	25.8
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	29.1
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	29.6
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	29.9
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	30.4
ECS KA3 MVP Extreme (RD580 200/800)	30.2
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	33
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	33.8
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	34.2
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	42
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	41.2
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	41.7
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	41.7
ECS KA3 MVP Extreme (RD580 200/800)	41.5

Office Productivity are in line with the results from SYSMark 2004. If you want to build a workstation machine for everyday content creation and office applications there is no reason why you shouldn't consider the ECS KA3 MVP Extreme motherboard or its ATI Crossfire Xpress 3200 chipset for the job.

SiSoft Sandra 2005	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
	Multimedia Benchmark		CPU Benchmark		Memory Benchmark
Motherboard	Integer SSE2:	Floating-Point SSE2:	Dhrystone SSE2:	Whetstone SSE2:	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800)	36212	42926	17400	4618 FPU / 7952 SSE2	5015	5020
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	36005	42695	16953	4596 FPU / 7899 SSE2	5087	5087
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800)	36562	43384	17621	4668 FPU / 8036 SSE2	5183	5182
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800)	48799	53396	21837	8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2	6688	6607
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800)	49031	53788	22011	8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2	6737	6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	48963	53456	22014	8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2	6694	6612
Epox MF570 SLI (NF 570 SLI 200/800)	48961	53579	22012	8255 FPU / 10687 SSE2	6637	6548
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	48879	53535	21910	8224 FPU / 10651 SSE2	6666	6594
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	49006	53359	22011	8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2	6646	6565
ECS KA3 MVP Extreme (RD580 200/800)	49012	53476	22006	8247 FPU / 10714 SSE2	6715	6602
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

The ECS KA3 MVP Extreme motherboard results are pretty good, memory bandwidth is slightly higher than we would have expected which is a pleasant surprise.