MSI provided some excellent boards in the days of the nForce 3 and 4 for the Athlon 64, but it has somewhat lagged behind Asus in the Core 2 market so far. Can a new BIOS  bring their flagship P35 Platinum up there with the best? 

VR-Zone pitted it against the P5K Premium to see how it performed and it fared quite well under the tests. Synthetic benchs aside, games run similarly in either board, so much you wouldn't tell the difference. Not even Company of Heroes shows a big enough margin to be felt. Quake 4, Unreal Tournament 2004, 3DMark06 and AquaMark 3 just get identical performance (don't look at the graphs, read the numbers).

Overcloking is also on par with the Asus board (495 MHz), but prices are quite another story: $145.50 and $215.75 for MSI and Asus respectively.

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