MSI P45 Platinum review and P45 to P35 comparison
- MSI P45 Platinum review and P45 to P35 comparison
- Page 2 - Packaging and contents
- Page 3 - Closer look, connectors and BIOS
- Page 4 - Methods of testing
- Page 5 - Performance in 3DMark Vantage
- Page 6 - Performance in Cinebench 10, WPrime
- Page 7 - Memory performance
- Page 8 - SATA performance
- Page 9 - Performance in editing video and pictures
- Page 10 - Compressing and decompressing performance
- Page 11 - Gaming performance
- Page 12 - Overclock and power efficiency
- Page 13 - Conclusion
Page 11 - Gaming performance
Page 11 - Gaming performance
Since the motherboard isn't targeted at cubicle workers, bur at gamers, overclockers and other hardware freaks, these might be the most interesting tests - how does it fare in the newest popular games. To check this out we tested MSI P45 Platinum and ASUS P5K-E in 3 major hits - two 3D shooters (Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) and the awesome RTS from Massive Entertainment - World in Conflict. Enemy Territory is different because it uses the improved Doom3 engine and it is OpenGL based, while Crysis and World in Conflict are DirectX 10 games with bunch of awe inspiring effects, such as HDR smoke, Dynamic light, shadows, "soft particles" and so on.
Results show all the FPS, minimal, average and maximum, for you to be able to make a judgement as to how playable the games are with the settings of the hardware we used.
Crysis
Results in Crysis are a tad disappointing, but after every test done so far, not unexpected. Chipsets are almost equal... still P35 is a bit more equal :)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Same with Enemy Territory, 2% in favour of the older chipset.
World in Conflict
Third game test confirming that P45 offers not anything new for the mass user. Minimal and maximal FPS are with one more than with P35, but the average ones are identical.