Under Windows NT the FIC board shows it's stuff keeping up with the highly optimized AMD's Fester motherboard. You can see quite a difference in the scores under NT. Both the MSI and Gigabyte platforms fall way behind the competition. I believe this delta is due to less-aggressive memory timing. Another thing I find peculiar is that the two motherboards (K7M & SD11) that use VIA's southbridge are able to keep up with AMD's reference board.