MSI P45 Platinum Review

Testing:

3DMark06 is one of those benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest breaks out. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.

Settings:

• SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
• CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
• HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze

The P45 Platinum is at the top of the scoring in three out of the four resolutions tested and falls only in the 1920 x 1200 benchmark by ten points. The performance of the MSI P45 Platinum eclipsed that of the X48 based comparison board in this benchmark across all four resolutions.