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WinRAR

Please excuse the dual charts; we are transitioning to only running the multi-threaded test, and I scrounged test results from both motherboard and processor reviews in order to show more data. The MSI K9A2 Platinum does well at WinRAR MT.

HDTach

It's nice to see SATA2 results that reflect SATA2 speeds for the burst reads. Note how the MSI K9A2 Platinum gets 10MB/sec more than the M2N32-SLI even for average speed!

The burst IDE performance of the MSI K9A2 Platinum is not as great as the comparison boards, however it does have a slight edge in average rates.

The K9A2 did not do well for USB drives - about 10% less performance with greater CPU usage. Perhaps newer drivers will help.