MSI DKA790GX Platinum Motherboard Review :: Test Setup and Performance

Author: Ben Sun · 10-14-2008 · Category: Motherboards

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  • Performance: 13
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The regular battery of tests was also run on the DKA790GX motherboard. Note that I continue to have issues with RAID 0 and AHCI modes on two WD Raptor SATA drives on AMD chipset motherboards, and had to run the single drive in IDE mode due to the RAID controller freezing every time I would set RAID to enable in the BIOS. Otherwise the setup is identical.


Test System

  • AMD Phenom 9850
  • 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066MHz PC8500 memory
  • 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs in single HDD mode
  • EVGA 8800GTS 320MB video card running 175.19 Forcewar drivers
  • Rosewill 950W PSU
  • Windows Vista 32-bit Business with SP1

Tests

  • Sysmark 2007 Patch 3
  • 3DMark05/06/Vantage
  • SpecViewPerf 10
  • Aquamark 3
  • PCMark05/Vantage
  • CPUBench 2003
  • Crystalmark 2004
  • wPrime 95
  • Sisoft Sandra XI Processor benchmark
  • PiFast

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