Results

We are going to start off with our productivity benches.  The first being Business Winstone 2004.  Business Winstone 2004 runs a suite of many popular office programs, measuring their speed and generating an overall score.  The programs it uses are Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft FrontPage 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Project 2002, Microsoft Word 2002, Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003 and WinZip 8.1.

Next up is PC Magazine's Content Creation 2004.  It also uses a suite of office apps but focuses more on design and creativity.  The programs run to generate a final score as shown below are Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1, Adobe® Premiere® 6.50, Macromedia® Director MX 9.0, Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1, Microsoft® Windows Media™ Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980, NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b and Steinberg™ WaveLab™ 4.0f .

SiSoft Sandra 2004 Pro is next on deck with memory bandwidth performance.

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - Board Layout
Pg 3 - Layout and BIOS
Pg 4 - BIOS and Testing
Pg 5 - Business Productivity Benchmarks
Pg 6 - Gaming Benchmarks
Pg 7 - Overclocking and Conclusion