When it comes to performance, the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard proved to be pretty equal to the MSI DKA790GX Platinum motherboard. This might shock many of you, but with the memory controller being the biggest change the performance numbers make sense. The MSI DKA790GX Platinum runs DDR2 1066MHz with CL5 timings and the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe runs DDR3 1333MHz with CL7 timings. That is near the bottom of the performance ladder for DDR3 memory, so it should only get better from this point on.