MSI P45 Platinum review and P45 to P35 comparison

Page 11 - Gaming performance

Since the motherboard isn't targeted at cubicle workers, bur at gamers, overclockers and other hardware freaks, these might be the most interesting tests - how does it fare in the newest popular games. To check this out we tested MSI P45 Platinum and ASUS P5K-E in 3 major hits - two 3D shooters (Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) and the awesome RTS from Massive Entertainment - World in Conflict. Enemy Territory is different because it uses the improved Doom3 engine and it is OpenGL based, while Crysis and World in Conflict are DirectX 10 games with bunch of awe inspiring effects, such as HDR smoke, Dynamic light, shadows, "soft particles" and so on.

Results show all the FPS, minimal, average and maximum, for you to be able to make a judgement as to how playable the games are with the settings of the hardware we used.

Crysis

Results in Crysis are a tad disappointing, but after every test done so far, not unexpected. Chipsets are almost equal... still P35 is a bit more equal :)

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Same with Enemy Territory, 2% in favour of the older chipset.

World in Conflict

Third game test confirming that P45 offers not anything new for the mass user. Minimal and maximal FPS are with one more than with P35, but the average ones are identical.