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Test Setup
7:03 AM - October 11, 2006 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: 975x, motherboards, core, 2, duo
Syndication:
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: 975x, motherboards, core, 2, duo
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Table of Contents:
Test Setup
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Socket 775 Processors | Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
(Conroe 65 nm, 2.67 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache) |
| RAM I | 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 4.0-4-4-8)
Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 XMS6404v1.1 |
| RAM II | 2x 512 MB DDR2-1066
Corsair CM2X512-8500 XMS8505v1.1 |
| Hard Drive I | 1x 150 GB 10.000 RPM, 16 MB cache, SATA/150
Western Digital WD1500ADFD-00NLR1 (Bios: 20.07P20) |
| Hard Drive II | 1x 150 GB 10.000 RPM, 16 MB cache, SATA/150
Western Digital WD1500ADFD-00NLR1 (Bios: 20.07P20) |
| DVD-ROM | Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x) |
| Graphics Card | Gigabyte GV-RX19X512VB-RH
ATI Radeon X1900XTX - 512 MB |
| Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510, ATX 2.01, 510 W |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| OS | Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2 |
| DirectX Version | 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| Platform Drivers | 8.0.1.1002 (06/06/2006) |
| Graphics Driver | ATI Catalyst 6.5 (8.252-060503a-032464C-ATI) |
Western Digital's Raptor WD1500 runs at 10,000 RPM and offers a whopping 16 MB cache. Both help deliver high throughput and superior I/O performance in this test.
We used a Gigabyte GV-RX19X512VB-HRH, which comes with ATI's Radeon X1900XTX 3D accelerator.
Corsair's high-performance memory allows high memory clock speeds. In the case of these four 975X motherboards, we ran the DDR2 RAM at over DDR2-1066 (533 MHz).
Intel's 975X chipset targets the high end of the PC market and thus will usually be paired with adequate components such as high-speed memory or an upscale graphics card. For this reason, we decided to run all motherboards with DDR2-800 and at overclocked DDR2-1066 memory speeds, because this is what the majority of customers will likely do.
Benchmarks And Settings
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| 3D-Games | |
| Call of Duty 2 | Version: 1.03
Video Mode: 1024x768 Anti-aliasing: off Shadows: no timedemo demo2 |
| Quake 4 | Version: 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)
Video Mode: 1024x768 Video Quality: default THG Timedemo waste.map timedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures) |
| Serious Sam 2 | Version: 2.070
Demo: Greendale 1024x768 HDR Rendering: off Renderer: Direct3D Filrering mode: none Antialiasing mode: none |
| Audio | |
| iTunes 6 | Version: 6.0.4.2
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min Convert wav to aac |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.97 Beta 2 (12-22-2005)
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 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", 53 min wave to ogg Quality: 5 |
| Video | |
| TMPEG 3.0 Express | Version: 3.0.4.24 (no Audio)
fist 5 Minutes DVD Terminator 2 SE (704x576) 16:9 Multithreading by rendering |
| DivX 6.2 | Version: 6.2.2 (4 Logical CPUs)
Profile: High Definition Profile 1-pass, 3000 kbit/s Encoding mode: Insane Quality Enhanced multithreading no Audio |
| XviD 1.1.0 | Version: 1.1.0 Beta 3
Target qantizer: 1.00 |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
Windows Media Encoder 9.1 AP |
Version: 2.0
NTSC MPEG2-HDTV 1920x1080 (24 sec) Import: Mainconcept NTSC HDTV 1080i Export: Adobe Media Encoder Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile Encoding Passes: one Bitrate Mode: Constant Frame: 1290x1080 Frame Rate: 29.97 Maximum Bitrate [kbps]: 2000 Image Quality: 50.00 Audio: no |
| Applications | |
| Winrar | Version 3.60 BETA 4 (Dual-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) |
| Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional | Version: 7.0.8 |
| Microsoft Office Word 2003 | Version: 11.6568.6568 SP2
Adobe PDF-Maker 950 pages Word file to PDF Enrcyption Level: High (128-bit RC4) Conversion Settings: High Quality Print |
| Synthetics | |
| 3DMark06 | Version: 1.02
1280x1024 - 32 bit Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark |
| PCMark05 Pro | Version: 1.1.0
CPU and Memory Tests Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3646 Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980 |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2007 | Version 2007.5.10.98
Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark |
| Everest | Version: 2.50
Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark |
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