Motherboard: MSI 845E MAX2 BLR Review :: Performance Testing

Stability & Compatibility

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Test System

• MSI 845E MAX2 BLR
• Intel Pentium 4 2000 CPU (Northwood core)
• 256MB DDR333 PC2700 Crucial DDR memory
• Base System specs

This board survived our torture tests. I used it for a 10 day long video card test too. This is the best way to see if there is a problem. It worked flawlessly. You can easily overclock this card because its default Frequncy is 2005 MHz. Most of the boards we have tested are set at 2020 MHz. So there is enough headroom to overclock. It was easy to overclock to 2300 MHz and it remained stable with another series of torture tests. But this lower default frequency reflected to the normal test results. Performance was not impressive.

SYSMark 2002 - 172

3DMark 2001SE - 7336

SPECviewperf

Quake III - 165