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Tom's Socket AM2 Motherboard Summer Slam
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System Hardware
Socket AM2 AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (Windsor 90 nm, 2.80 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache)
RAM 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 4.0-4-4-8)
Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 XMS6404v1.1
Graphics Card MSI RX1900XTXVT2D512E
GPU : ATI X1900XTX (650 MHz)
RAM : 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 MHz)
Hard Drive I (read) 1x 150 GB 10.000 rpm, 8 MB cache, SATAII
Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Hard Drive II (write) 1x 150 GB 10.000 rpm, 8 MB cache, SATAII
Western Digital WD1500ADFD
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Software
ATI Graphic Catalyst 6.8
ATI Chipset Catalyst 6.8
Nvidia nForce 500 Series Forceware 9.35
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2

Nothing too fancy here, but it is no slouch either : an Athlon 64 FX-62 CPU and 2 GB of DDR2-800 RAM with a CAS latency of 4. Not too shabby, indeed.

What are our expectations ? Well, frankly we’d be surprised if any board pulls ahead at any particular task. With the memory controller on the Athlon 64 die, performance shouldn’t deviate that much at all. The only real wildcard in the suite is the single Radeon Xpress 3200 chipset, and we’ll be surprised if any leads by any particular board falls outside the margin of error.

Benchmarks And Software

Benchmarks and Settings
3D-Games
F.E.A.R Version : 1.0 Retail
Video Mode : 1024x768
Computer : High
Graphics Card : medium
Options/Performance/Test settings
Quake 4 Version : 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)
Video Mode : 1024x768
Video Quality : default
THG Timedemo waste.map
timedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures)
Video
TMPEG 3.0 Express Version : 3.0.4.24 (no Audio)
182 MB VOB MPEG2-source (704x576) 16:9
DivX 6.25 Version : 6.25 (4 Logical CPUs)
Certification Profile : High Definition Profile
Multipass, 3000 kb/s
Encoding mode : Insane Quality
XviD 1.2.0 Version : 1.2.0 SMP Beta
Encoding type : Twopass - Single pass
Profile @ Level : DXN HT PAL
Target size (kB) : 570000
Audio
Lame MP3 Version 3.97 Beta 2 (11-29-2005)
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min
wave to mp3
160 kbps
OGG Version 1.1.2 (Intel P4 MOD)
Version 1.1.2 (Intel AMD MOD)
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min
wave to ogg
Quality : 5
Applications
Winrar Version 3.60 BETA 4 (Dual-Core)
(303 MB, 47 Files, 2 Folders)
Compression = Best
Dictionary = 4096 kB
Autodesk 3D Studio Max Version : 8.0
Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"
rendering HTDV 1920x1080
Adobe Photoshop CS 2 Version : 9.0.1
VT-Runtime Script
Rendering from 5 Pictures (66 MB, 7 Filters)
Synthetic
PCMark05 Pro Version : 1.1.0
CPU and Memory Tests
Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3646
Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980
SiSoftware Sandra 2007 Version 2007.5.10.98
CPU Test = CPU Arithmetic / MultiMedia
Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark
Memory Latency Test = ns
Other
Windows Media Player 10 Version : 10.00.00.36.46

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    autorotation , July 22, 2009 7:59 PM
    ive had a headache with this board =/ didnt do my homework and bought a phenom x4 9600 and then found out its not compatible with this board =/ i also bought a evga geforce gts 250 512 mb card and it wont post on this board and i get no display, im assuming its just not compatible because i posted it on another board with a psu that was weaker than mine and it had a display. if anyone can shed light on my situation with this video card not posting on this board, would be great. as far as recommending this board, im not even sure its still in production, but i would not reccomend it. spend the extra cash and get a board that can handle a quad core and a modern gfx card. also the cpu fan mounting bracket had one of the tabs break off on me, so i had to get a new psu fan mount, so that gives you an idea of what high quality this board is anyways =/ plus i think i heard that epox went out of business.....
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    Anonymous , May 25, 2011 6:59 PM
    I bought two of these boards and both ended up with the same problem of a read-out of 4 red lights saying the processor is bad!Wrong!They are both fine and this is the worst board I have ever had!I will not be buying any more of MSI boards again!Still not sure what the problem is,but these are going straight to the trash!!!!