DDR3 may be the new kid on the block, but if you don't want to spend too much on memory, and yet, buy a new system today (or in the near future), what options do you have? You most likely will want a motherboard that supports upcoming processors, or a P35 based one, to frase it differently. You want to use that "old" DDR2 or take advantage of the really low prices it goes for right now? You also want to upgrade to DDR3 down the road? Don't despair, there's such a product: MSI P35 Neo Combo.

Hardwaresecrets measured the overall performance of this motherboard using SYSmark2004 (Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity) and Quake 4 among other programs. The verdict? Overall SYSmark2004 performance was on the same level as ASUS P5B Premium (Intel P965), ASUS P5B (Intel P965) and MSI P35 Platinum (Intel P35). On Quake 4 the ASUS P5B (Intel P965) was 5.54% faster and the ASUS P5B Premium (Intel P965) was 5.71% faster.

A side note. On this motherboard they had a bug that prevented them to run their memories at 1066 MHz. Performance figures on Quake 4 compare the results with all memories running at 800 MHz, though.

In summary, 2D performance looks just fine, but 3D games may suffer a little even if you have the same memory configuration than other P965 based systems.

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