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The simple tests to start; Doom 3, Quake 4, and WinRAR.

Doom's doing pretty good.

Quake 4 winning.

And WinRAR stomps the competition.

RightMark Memory Analyzer for those all important memory speed tweaks.

Memory bandwidth through the roof.

Read times skyrocket.

Memory write times falls just a bit.

But the overall memory latency carries it home.

Finally, some SiSoft Sandra to check over the CPU and memory once more. 

Great memory bandwidth.

But the CPU isn't getting what it needs.

Alright, I'll admit! I was a bit harsh on MSI for those odd engineering mistakes and or choices. But when I buy a piece of hardware, I want it to look like it was made today, not four or five years ago. I did blast them a bit for that thing they called a BIOS, but I do spend a lot of my time staring into that glowing blue screen.

In all honesty, the performance and overclocking potential of the MSI P6N SLI Platinum motherboard far exceeded my expectations. I'll explain further in my conclusion.