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MSI 975X Platinum Motherboard Review - PCSTATS

With a top of the line motherboard like the MSI Computer 975X Platinum, you're getting a nice looking slab of PCB with a healthy dose of enthusiast friendly features to match.
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External Mfg. Website: MSI		Nov 30 2006	C. Sun

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Motherboard Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra

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

Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 32.6

Asus P5B (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 32.5

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

Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 (945G 200/667 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video) 32

Epox 5P945 Pro (945P 200/667 Core 2 Duo) 31.8

Gigabyte GA-945GZME-RH (945GZ 200/533 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video) 26.9

Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3 (945PL 200/533 Core 2 Duo) 27.4

MSI 975X Platinum (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 32.7

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

Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 43.6

Asus P5B (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 43.3

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

Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 (945G 200/667 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video) 42.7

Epox 5P945 Pro (945P 200/667 Core 2 Duo) 42.5

Gigabyte GA-945GZME-RH (945GZ 200/533 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video) 38.7

Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3 (945PL 200/533 Core 2 Duo) 39.2

MSI 975X Platinum (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 43.6

The MSI 975X Platinum motherboard handles well in the Office Productivity tests, that's good news for anyone looking to build a workstation system.

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:

ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) 48799 53396 21837 8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2 6688 6607

Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) 49031 53788 22011 8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2 6737 6656

MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 48963 53456 22014 8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2 6694 6612

Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 49006 53359 22011 8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2 6646 6565

Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840) 35956 42846 17351 4601 FPU / 7913 SSE2 5097 5097

Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840) 36082 42781 17356 4594 FPU / 7923 SSE2 5103 5106

Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840) 35865 42555 17272 4582 FPU / 7880 SSE2 5036 5040

MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840) 36212 42926 17400 4618 FPU / 7952 SSE2 5015 5020

Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840) 36562 43384 17621 4668 FPU / 8036 SSE2 5183 5182

Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 62560 70920 28774 7228 SSE2 / 10672 SSE2 5643 5596

Asus P5B (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 62814 71756 29142 7328 FPU / 10785 SSE2 5618 5584

Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 62807 71205 28923 7258 FPU / 10712 SSE2 5651 5599

Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 63606 71990 29230 7361 FPU / 10793 SSE2 5593 5528

Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 63045 71513 29014 7318 FPU / 10762 SSE2 5613 5578

Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 (945G 200/667 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video) 63003 71497 29112 7304 FPU / 10753 SSE2 4872 4855

Epox 5P945 Pro (945P 200/667 Core 2 Duo) 62954 71261 28932 7286 FPU / 10739 SSE2 4977 4926

Gigabyte GA-945GZME-RH (945GZ 200/533 Core 2 Duo Onboard Video) 46939 53225 21637 5297 FPU / 8011 SSE2 3954 3936

Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3 (945PL 200/533 Core 2 Duo) 47126 53478 22052 5326 FPU / 8063 SSE2 4047 4022

MSI 975X Platinum (975X 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 63124 71956 28962 7314 FPU / 10758 SSE2 5555 5484

Units:
it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

The MSI 975X Platinum results are good here. Sandra illustrates that memory bandwidth numbers are nice and high.

Contents of Article: MSI 975X Platinum

Pg 1. MSI 975X Platinum Motherboard Review
Pg 2. Intel 975X Express Chipset
Pg 3. Motherboard Highlights
Pg 4. Overclocking and the BIOS
Pg 5. Motherboard Benchmarks: Sysmark 2004
Pg 6. — Motherboard Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra
Pg 7. Motherboard Benchmarks: SuperPi, PCMark05
Pg 8. Motherboard Benchmarks: 3DMark05, 3DMark06
Pg 9. Motherboard Benchmarks: FarCry, Doom 3, Quake 4
Pg 10. Motherboard Benchmarks - Quake 4

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