Pricey Foundations: 9 Boards For The Pentium 4

Office Performance: Sysmark 2000 Patch 5

For the category "Office Performance" the MSI 850 Pro 2 takes the gold in the Sysmark 2000 discipline with 242 points. DFI hobbles along in the rear with 221 points.

OpenGL Performance: Quake 3 Arena

MSI's high CPU clock speed is still not sufficient to push it to the top in the Quake 3 benchmark. The Asus P4T is somewhat faster.

Direct3D Performance: Unreal Tournament

In the Unreal Tournament benchmark we have the same placing: The Asus P4T is a nose-length ahead of the other candidates.