MSI P35 Platinum

Written by Richard Swinburne

June 13, 2007 | 10:58

Tags: #analysis #benchmark #comparison #crossfire #ddr2 #heatpipe #p35 #pci-express #platinum #rings #sata

Companies: #intel #msi

Gaming Platform Performance:


Call of Duty 2

1024x768, 0xAF, 0xAA, Maximum Details

  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - X1900 CF
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - X1900 CF
  • 97.4
  • 85.1
  • 98.3
  • 98.5
  • 91.1
  • 88.9
0
25
50
75
100
Frames Per Second - higher is better

Quake 4

1024x768, 0xAF, 0xAA, Maximum Details

  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - X1900 CF
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - X1900 CF
  • 219.2
  • 207.8
  • 212.0
  • 211.3
  • 217.0
  • 214.5
0
50
100
150
200
250
Frames Per Second - higher is better

Half Life 2 - Episode 1

1024x768, 0xAF, 0xAA, Maximum Details

  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - X1900 CF
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - X1900 CF
  • 156.3
  • 164.8
  • 151.1
  • 151.5
  • 156.9
  • 189.1
0
50
100
150
200
Frames Per Second - higher is better

FEAR 1.08

1024x768, 0xAF, 0xAA, Maximum Details

  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • MSI P35 Platinum (P35/ICH9R) - X1900 CF
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - 7900 GTX
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R) - X1900 CF
  • 150
  • 177
  • 147
  • 149
  • 148
  • 182
0
50
100
150
200
Frames Per Second - higher is better

Single card performance is consistently very good, with the MSI performing nearly as fast or faster (Quake 4) than the other P35 boards we've tested. At the time of testing we were using the AMD beta driver for CrossFire and it doesn't seem that they are mature enough just yet, with it being slower than single card in both Call of Duty 2 and Quake 4. In F.E.A.R. and Half-Life 2 the performance is higher than a single Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX, but it still can't keep up with the P965 Commando, dropping quite a few frames per second on average.
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