MSI K9A Platinum

Memory Performance:

Memory performance is fantastic on the K9A Platinum. Despite the fact the DDR2 memory controller is on the FX-62's die, the BIOS engineers have still enabled the MSI to get the maximum amount of performance from it after we set it to 3-3-3-9-1T without any hassle what-so-ever.

Disk Performance:

The USB 2.0 tests were done using an ATA133 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drive (model number: 6L160PO) using the same 8MB zone test enclosed in an Icy Box USB 2.0 hard drive caddy. We recorded the average read speeds in all cases.

USB performance is also very good from the SB600, with a very low CPU usage, as well as performing in excess of 30MB/s.