MSI K9A2 CF

Written by Richard Swinburne

December 21, 2007 | 08:09

Tags: #20 #64 #790x #am2 #athlon #budget #cf #cheap #crossfire #ddr2 #k9a2 #pci-express #performance #phenom #sb600 #x2

Companies: #amd #msi

Gaming Performance:


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

1600x1200 0xAA 0xAF, Ultra High Details

  • MSI K9A2 CF
  • Gigabyte GA790FX-DQ6
  • Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
  • 72.8
  • 71.5
  • 71.7
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Crysis

1600x1200 0xAA 0xAF, High Details

  • MSI K9A2 CF
  • Gigabyte GA790FX-DQ6
  • Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
  • 23.0
  • 25.3
  • 26.5
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Company Of Heroes

1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF, High Details

  • MSI K9A2 CF
  • Gigabyte GA790FX-DQ6
  • Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
  • 33.7
  • 37.4
  • 33.3
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Overall a mixed response – the MSI K9A2 CF is faster in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, but slightly slower in Crysis and Company of Heroes.

Multi-GPU


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

1600x1200 0xAA 0xAF, Ultra High Details

  • MSI K9A2 CF
  • Gigabyte GA790FX-DQ6
  • 46.7
  • 48.0
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Company Of Heroes

1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF, High Details

  • MSI K9A2 CF
  • Gigabyte GA790FX-DQ6
  • 24.6
  • 28.4
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With two Radeon HD 3850s in CrossFire, the K9A2 CF drops several frames to the Gigabyte in Company of Heroes but only a couple in ET:QW.
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