MSI K9A2 Platinum review - overclock friendly mobo for AMD
- MSI K9A2 Platinum review - overclock friendly mobo for AMD
- Page 2 - MSI K9A2 Platinum from up close
- Page 3 - MSI K9A2 Platinum BIOS
- Page 4 - Test configuration, tests
- Page 5 - 3DMark06, CineBench 10, Fract
- Page 6 - SuperPI, WinRAR
- Page 7 - Overclock, Conclusion
Page 4 - Test configuration, tests
Test configuration, tests
Hardware
- MSI K9A2 Platinum
- AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ Black Edition [2600MHz 200x13]
- 2x1GB A-Data DDRII 800 [371MHz 5-5-5-18 CR2]
- nVIDIA 7900GS 256MB [640/800MHz]
- 40GB Maxtor 6E040L0
- Chieftec GPS-550AB
Software
- Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
- ForceWare 174.93 Beta
Tests
- 3DMark 06 1.1.0
- CineBench 10
- SuperPI mod 1.5 [8MB calculation]
- WinRAR 3.71
- Fract Benchmark 1.07b
Settings of test and drivers were not changed for the tests. At the time when this review was published, because of severely limited resources on our end, we did not had comparison results. Later the review ill be updated in order to compare it to similarly priced Intel system