MSI K8N Diamond Plus Motherboard Review
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 |