gpu charts (what is the setup)

I've looked all over toms for 2 days and can't find an old article (well not that old) I'm trying to find out what hardware (mobo, cpu, ram, blah blah blah) in the GPU benchmark charts.


I just ordered a GTX280 and I wanna see how accurate the charts are gonna be toward my crysis performance ^_^



thank you in advance for the links and info. I've lurked this site since around 2001 and I live by this site. ^_^

ok 26 views as this thread keeps going lower and lower down the forums.


just wondering there are no replys because you guys don't know the answer or what?

a GPU comparison chart means nothing if it's not quantified with alist of the other hardware components in the system.

I remember there was an article that listed all the base components in their new test bench pc. which would really help me if anyone can find that link.

yes but too bad thats not the case now

Although they are interactive, I love Guru's Playable color coordination know ur safety zone


Plus its simple and too the point!!!


P.S

see 3 posts and 3 opinions

Stangestranger's and mine

Are you talking about this chart?
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2033.html

Or this chart?
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] ks,30.html

Took me all of about 1 1/2 minutes to find the base reference systems used in the VGA charts for Toms.
I THINK this is the latest configuration used.

Nvidia single graphics cards; AMD single and CrossFire graphics cards CPU
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 2.93 GHz (11x 266 MHz),
Socket 775, 1.28 V, 65 nm, 4096 KB L2 cache
FSB 1066 MHz (4x 266 MHz)
Motherboard Asus P5E3 Deluxe, PCIe 2.0 2x16, ICH9R
Chipset Intel X38
Memory 2x 1 GB, Ballistix (Crucial Technology) 1.5 V,
DDR3 1066 7-7-7-20 (2x 533 MHz)
Audio Intel High Definition Audio
LAN Intel 1000 Pro
Drives Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500 GB, SATA, 16 MB cache,
Hitachi 120 GB, SATA, 8 MB cache
DVD Gigabyte GO-D1600C
Power Supply CoolerMaster RS-850-EMBA 850 W



Nvidia SLI graphics cards
Motherboard Asus P5N-T Deluxe, PCIe 2.0 2x16
Chipset Nvidia nforce 780i SLI
Memory 2x1 GB, A-Data Technology 1.8 V, DDR2 800 5-5-5-18 (2x 400 MHz)
Audio ADI 1988B SoundMax
LAN Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit



Drivers & Configuration Graphics AMD Catalyst 8.6
Nvidia Forceware 175.16, GTX 260 and GTX 280 Forceware 177.39
Operating system Windows Vista Enterprise SP1
DirectX 10 and 10.1
Chipset driver X38 Intel 8.3.1.1009
780i Nvidia nforce 9.64


Here is the link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 020-2.html