Legit Motherboard Reviews
Asrock AM2V890-VSTA & MSI K9A Platinum Motherboards
| Manufacturer: | ASRock |
| Product: | AMD Socket AM2 Motherboards by VIA and ATI |
| Date: | Tue, Aug 22, 2006 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Jason Petermann - |
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The Test Setup
Benchmarks and Testing Setup:
Test Platform:
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Processor |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
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Motherboard |
MSI K9A Platinum Asrock AM2V890-VSTA |
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Video Card |
ATI X1900 XTX ATI X1900 CF |
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Memory |
Adata PC2 6400 2 GB kit |
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital 250GB, 16mb Cache |
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Cooling |
Corsair Nautilus |
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Power Supply |
Antec Neo HE 550 |
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Operating System |
Windows XP Professional w/SP2 |
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All tests were run using a clean install of Windows XP Professional with SP2. Both boards used the latest release bios. For our stock speed tests, we ran everything at default timings for the CPU. For both boards, our stock speed testing used Adata DDR2 6400 2 GB kit, at speeds of 4-4-4-12 and 1.8 vDimm. Timings for our overclocking were left 4-4-4-12 and 1.8v, but the ram divider was set to 533 to take any ram issues out of the CPU overclocking. The video card was left at default timings as well for all tests. For this review, stability was determined by running our battery of tests, plus the ability to complete a SuperPi 32mb test run.
Next Page - The Tests: Overall System Performance - World Bench 5
| Review Index |
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Page 1 - A Look at the Boards
Page 2 - A Closer Look: The Asrock AM2V890-VSTA Specs Page 3 - A Closer Look: The Asrock AM2V890-VSTA Layout Page 4 - A Closer Look: The Asrock AM2V890-VSTA Bios Page 5 - A Closer Look: The MSI K9A Platinum Specs Page 6 - A Closer Look: The MSI K9A Platinum Layout Page 7 - A Closer Look: The MSI K9A Platinum Bios Page 8 - The Test Setup Page 9 - The Tests: Overall System Performance - World Bench 5 Page 10 - The Tests: Overall System Performance - World Bench 5 Continued Page 11 - The Tests: Overall System Performance and Memory Bandwidth Page 12 - The Tests: 3D and Gaming Performance Page 13 - The Tests: Overclocking Page 14 - The Conclusion |
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