Review: MSI K9A Platinum AM2 mainboard

by James Morris on 24 October 2006, 07:35

Tags: MSI K9A Platinum AM2 mainboard, MSI

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As predicted, the MSI with its Athlon 64 FX-62 falls significantly behind the Foxconn with its Core 2 Duo X6800 in our media encoding and 3D rendering tests. Intel has the upper hand in pretty much all CPU-intensive tasks. However, the MSI performs similarly to to the nForce590 SLI-equipped ASUS Crosshair motherboard.