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MSI K8N Diamond Plus Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres and Daniel Barros
Type: Reviews Last Updated: March 28, 2006
Page: 10 of 14
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3D Performance: 3DMark05
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3DMark05 measures performance by simulating DirectX 9.0c games, i.e. using Shader 3.0 model. This programming model is used by games like Far Cry. This programming model is used by GeForce series 6 and 7 from nVidia and Radeon X1000 series from ATI. You can find the results below.

Motherboard

3Dmark05
(Build 1.2.0)

%

MSI K8N Diamond Plus (nForce4 SLI X16) SLI

6339

+80.65

Foxconn WinFast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS (nForce4 Ultra)

3600

+2.59

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4 SLI) Normal

3597

+2.51

ECS KN1 Extreme (nForce4 Ultra)

3595

+2.45

DFI LANParty UT nF4 SLI-D (nForce4 SLI) Normal

3589

+2.28

ECS KN1 SLI Extreme (nForce4 SLI) Normal

3535

+0.74

Albatron K8SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal

3529

+0.57

MSI K8N Diamond Plus (nForce4 SLI X16) Normal

3509

 

Sapphire PI-A9RX480 (ATI Xpress 200P)

3427

-2.39

ULi AP970A (ULi M1697)

3317

-5.79

ULi AP9567A (ULi M1695)

3276

-7.11

ULi AP9567A (ULi M1695) - AGP

3111

-9.28

On this test MSI K8N Diamond Plus achieved a performance similar to the majority of motherboards we tested, being faster than all motherboards based on ULi chipset.

We included K8N Diamond Plus results with SLI for you to compare the performance difference you may expect when enabling SLI on this motherboard. Enabling SLI we had an 80.65% performance increase on this test.

Comparing the results among SLI-enabled motherboards (see table below), MSI K8N Diamond Plus achieved a performance similar to other motherboards we tested.

Motherboard

3Dmark05
(Build 1.2.0)

%

Albatron K8SLI (nForce4 SLI)

6397

+0.91

ECS KN1 SLI Extreme (nForce4 SLI)

6354

+0.24

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4 SLI)

6346

+0.11

MSI K8N Diamond Plus (nForce4 SLI X16)

6339

 

DFI LANParty UT nF4 SLI-D (nForce4 SLI)

6262

-1.23

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