General Performance & Encoding
The 3DMark series of benchmarks developed and provided by FutureMark are among the most widely used tools for benchmark reporting and comparisons. Although the benchmarks are very useful for providing apple to apple comparisons across a broad array of GPU and CPU configurations, they are not a substitute for actual application and gaming benchmarks. In this sense we consider the 3DMark benchmarks to be purely synthetic in nature but still valuable for providing consistent measurements of performance.
The MSI K8N Diamond Plus exhibits excellent performance in the synthetic benchmarks with scores consistently in the top range of all boards tested. The MSI board performed extremely well in the PCMark 2005 benchmark that tests overall performance in a wide range of general applications. Throughout our general application testing and usage we found the board to be very responsive and actually noticed a performance difference in Office 2003 and Photoshop CS compared to other boards in our test lab. Although not reported, this board produced the highest AMD socket 939 WorldBench 5 score during our stability testing.
The 3DMark series of benchmarks developed and provided by FutureMark are among the most widely used tools for benchmark reporting and comparisons. Although the benchmarks are very useful for providing apple to apple comparisons across a broad array of GPU and CPU configurations, they are not a substitute for actual application and gaming benchmarks. In this sense we consider the 3DMark benchmarks to be purely synthetic in nature but still valuable for providing consistent measurements of performance.
The MSI K8N Diamond Plus exhibits excellent performance in the synthetic benchmarks with scores consistently in the top range of all boards tested. The MSI board performed extremely well in the PCMark 2005 benchmark that tests overall performance in a wide range of general applications. Throughout our general application testing and usage we found the board to be very responsive and actually noticed a performance difference in Office 2003 and Photoshop CS compared to other boards in our test lab. Although not reported, this board produced the highest AMD socket 939 WorldBench 5 score during our stability testing.
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DigitalFreak - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Agreed. However, there are alternatives if you have the PCI-E slots available. Going the add-in route also allows you to run off the PCI-E bus. 1394b can saturate the PCI bus.http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=1013">PCI-E Firewire 800 adapter
Olaf van der Spek - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
[quote]MSI provides an SLI Video Link card that is long enough to connect two NVIDIA based video cards for SLI operation along with a digital switching method that eliminates the use of jumpers to configure SLI capability.[/quote]Does that switch between dual x16 and dual x16???
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
LOL Sounds like someone has been cut & pasting together reviews.Gary Key - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
No cut and paste, the sentence content was corrected, lets call it an editorial difference of opinion. :)decalpha - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2739&p=...">http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2739&p=...The MSI K8N Diamond Plus was extremely stable with 4 DDR2 modules in Dual-Channel operation
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Corrected to DDR.MIKEMIKE - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
meant that to read:Something about the first page irked me, it isnt a normal introduction to the item being reviewed. it seems as if that needs to be a second page, and a new first page drafted up.
redbone75 - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
I may be mistaken, but I think it's called an introduction.MIKEMIKE - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Something withthe layout, and introduction of the mobo irked me and turned me off of the review in general, not sure what specifically though.Gary Key - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Thanks for the comments. At times we try different layouts, some work, some do not, but hopefully we progress for the better over time.