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Test Setup
9:29 AM - January 29, 2007 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: xp, vs, vista
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: xp, vs, vista
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Table of Contents:
Test Setup
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe 65 nm, 2.93 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache) |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
Chipset: Intel P965, 82801HR (ICH8), BIOS: F8 |
| Common Hardware | |
| RAM | 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 3.0-4-3-9)
Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 XMS6403v1.1 |
| Graphics Card | HIS Radeon X1900XTX IceQ3
GPU: ATI X1900XTX (650 MHz) RAM: 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 MHz) |
| System Hard Drive | 1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150
Western Digital WD1500ADFD |
| Data Hard Drive | 1x 150 GB 10.000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150
Western Digital WD1500ADFD |
| DVD-ROM | Teac DV-W50D |
| Software | |
| Vista ATI Graphic | Catalyst Suite 8.31.100.3.2.1 |
| XP ATI Graphic | Catalyst Suite 7.1.40211 |
| Intel Chipset | 8.1.1.1010 |
| DirectX Vista | Version: 10.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| DirectX XP | Version: 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| OS | Windows Vista Enterprise, Build 6000.16386.061101-2205 |
Benchmarks And Settings
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| 3D-Games | |
| Call Of Duty 2 | Version: 1.3 Retail
Video Mode: 1280x960 Anti Aliasing: 4x Graphics Card: medium Timedemo demo2 |
| FarCry | Version 1.33 build 1395
1280x1024 - 32 Bit quality options = High |
| F.E.A.R | Version: 1.0 Retail
Video Mode: 1280x920 Computer: High Graphics Card: High Options/Performance/Test settings |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | Version: 3204
1280x1024, 32 Bit, Audio = off THG8-assault-single |
| 3DMark06 | Version 1.1.0
1280 x 1024 - 32 bit Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark |
| Video | |
| AutoGK | Version: 2.4
182 MB VOB MPEG2-source (704x576) 16:9 |
| XviD | Version: 1.2.0 SMP Beta 08/12/06
Encoding type: Twopass Target size (mbytes): 100 |
| MainConcept H.264 Encoder v2 | Version: 2.1
2:19 min MPEG2-source 1920x1080 to H.264 Profile: High Audio: AAC Stream: Program |
| Audio | |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.97 Beta 2 (11-29-2005)
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min wave to mp3 160 kbps |
| OGG | Version 1.1.2 (Intel P4 MOD)
Version 1.1.2 (Intel AMD MOD) Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min wave to ogg Quality: 5 |
| Applications | |
| SPECviewperf 9 | Version: 9.03
All Tests |
| Winrar | Version 3.70 Beta 1 (Multi-Core)
(303 MB, 47 Files, 2 Folders) Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB |
| Autodesk 3D Studio Max | Version: 8.0
Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig" rendering HTDV 1920x1080 |
| Adobe Photoshop CS 2 | Version: 9.0.1
VT-Runtime Script Rendering from 5 Pictures (66 MB, 7 Filters) |
| Cinebench | Version 9.5
64 Bit nCPU, 1 CPU |
| SunGard | Adaptiv Credit Risk Calculation
Version 3.0 |
| Synthetic | |
| Everest | Version 3.5.761
Cache & Memory Benchmark |
| PCMark05 Pro | Version: 1.2.0
CPU and Memory Tests Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3646 Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980 |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2007 | Version 2007.5.11.17
CPU Test = CPU Arithmetic / MultiMedia Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark Memory Latency Test = ns |
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Anonymous
06/03/2008
12:59 PM
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Are we still talkin about Windows ?? or trains ??
Anonymous
08/14/2008
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I can't tell if you were using 32 bit or 64 bit Vista? I think it makes a big difference.
joe12345
08/21/2008
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They were using 32 bit version
