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K9A Platinum Motherboard (Athlon 64 / 64FX / 64 X2, Socket AM2, nForce2, ATX, 8GB DDR2, 1000MHz Bus)

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Pros

Offers both newest and oldest technologies

Cons

Performance within group was so-so

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Pricing - Inexpensive $130 (1/22/07)

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Performance - Very Good: 83 WorldBench 5 overall score - Very Good: 133
WorldBench 5 component results (in seconds) ACD Systems ACDSee - 433 Adobe Photoshop - 288 Adobe Premiere - 327 Ahead Nero - 192 Discreet 3ds Max DirectX - 238 Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL - 260 Microsoft Office XP - 539 Windows Media Encoder - 248 Mozilla - 280 Multitasking - 340 Musicmatch Jukebox - 417 Roxio VideoWave - 236 WinZip - 249
Graphics tests (frames per second) Doom 3 1024 by 768, 32-bit - 125 Doom 3 1280 by 1024, 32-bit - 123 Doom 3 1024 by 768, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 101 Doom 3 1280 by 1024, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 88 Far Cry 1024 by 768, 32-bit - 146 Far Cry 1280 by 1024, 32-bit - 142 Far Cry 1024 by 768, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 134 Far Cry 1280 by 1024, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 107
Features - Good: 76 Chip set - ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 (AMD 580X) RAM sockets - 4 Maximum installable RAM - 4GB Memory type - DDR2 800 Expansion slots - 2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 2 PCI Dual-graphics support - Crossfire dual-graphics support (16X) Storage connectors - 4 SATA ports, 1 PATA ports RAID support - 0 or 1, 0+1, JBOD Back-panel USB ports - 4 Back-panel FireWire ports - 1 Back-panel eSATA ports - 0 Ports on bundled brackets - 2 USB, 1 FireWire USB ports on optional breakout panels - 5 FireWire ports on optional breakout panels - 1 Back-panel legacy ports - 2 PS/2, 1 parallel, 1 serial Gigabit ethernet adapters - 2 7.1-channel (192-kHz/24-bit) integrated audio chip - Realtek 883 Back-panel digital audio connections - Coaxial/optical out Parts/labor warranty (years) - Three/Two Weekday support hours - 8 Weekend support hours - 0 Toll-free support - No
Design - Very Good: 85