Price Break-down Of Our Test System
by
Frank Völkel
| Components Prices | |
|---|---|
| nVentiv barebones, silver (aluminum),
including Athlon 64 FX-51 and board |
$1,500 (1290 €) |
| Memory : Corsair 1 GB, DDR400 | $440 (379 €) |
| Graphic card : GeForce FX 5900 Ultra | $638 (549 €) |
| RAID controller : FastTrak S150 | $109 (94 €) |
| Hard drives : 2x SATA Maxtor 80 GB | $219 (188 €) |
| Sound card : Terratec Aureon Space 7.1 | $115 (99 €) |
| DVD burner : NEC ND-1300A | $208 (179 €) |
| Total price | $3,231 (2778 €) |
List Of Performance Increases
| Quake III | 17.8% |
| PC Mark 2002 | 15.9% |
| 3D Mark 2001 | 10.9% |
| 3D Mark 2003 | 4.4% |
| 3D Mark CPU | 19.3% |
| Warcraft III | 3.2% |
| Wolfenstein | 16.9% |
| Comanche 4 | 18.5% |
| UT 2003 | 11.5% |
| Splintercell | 18.1% |
| X2-Demo | 19.3% |
| Gunmetal | 17.3% |
| Serious Sam | 17.5% |
| Aquamark 3 | 13.5% |
| Main Concept | 20.7% |
| Xmpeg | 24.2% |
| Windows Media Encoder | 24.5% |
| Lame MP3 | 25.9% |
| MP3 Maker | 25.8% |
| Lightwave | 27.6% |
| Cinema 4D | 26.9% |
| Mathematica 5 | 23.9% |
| 3D Studio Max | 27.1% |
| Movie Maker 2.0 | 21.1% |
| Studio 8.8 | 25.8% |
| Steinberg Nuendo | 16.4% |
| Sysmark 2002 | 25.8% |
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