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Test Setup

1:15 PM - August 23, 2006 by Darren E. Polkowski

As we mentioned before, we did not have the cards for more than a day and a half. While shipping issues hindered our efforts, we wanted to get out as much information into your hands as possible within the short timeframe available. We will have the multi-processor results shortly and in that article we will discus more about power requirements and how some of these new memory changes impact performance and power consumption.

System Hardware
Processor(s)	AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 2.6 GHz, 1.0 GHz HT-Link, 1 MB L2 cache
Platform	Nvidia : Asus AN832-SLI Premium NVIDIA nForce4 SLI, BIOS version 1205 Nvidia : Asus A8R32-MVP Premium ATI Xpress 3200 CrossFire, BIOS version 0404
RAM	Corsair CMX1024-4400Pro 2x 1024 MB @ DDR400 (CL3.0-4-4-8)
Hard Drive	Western Digital Raptor, WD1500ADFD 150 GB, 10,000 rpm, 16 MB cache, SATA150
Networking	On-Board nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet Onboard Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
Graphics Cards
ATI Based Cards	ATI Radeon X1950XTX 512 MB GDDR4 650 MHz Core 1,000 MHz Memory (2.00 GHz DDR) ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 512 MB GDDR4 650 MHz Core 1,000 MHz Memory (2.00 GHz DDR) ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512 MB GDDR3 650 MHz Core 775 MHz Memory (1.55 GHz DDR) ATI Radeon X1950XTX 256 MB GDDR3 650 MHz Core 775 MHz Memory (1.55 GHz DDR)
Nvidia Based Cards	XFX GeForce 7950GX2 1 GB GDDR3 570 MHz Core 775 MHz Memory (1.55 GHz DDR) PNY GeForce 7900GTX 512 MB GDDR3 675 MHz Core 820 MHz Memory (1.64 GHz DDR) XFX GeForce 7900GT 256 MB GDDR3 675 MHz Core 815 MHz Memory (1.63 GHz DDR) PNY GeForce 7800 GTX 256 MB GDDR3 430 MHz Core 600 MHz Memory (1.20 GHz DDR) EVGA GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB GDDR3 445 MHz Core 535 MHz Memory (1.07 GHz DDR) XFX XXX GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB GDDR3 590 MHz Core 800 MHz Memory (1.60 GHz DDR)
Power Supply	PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1,000W
System Software & Drivers
OS	Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version	9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform Driver	nForce 6.70
Graphics Driver(s)	ATI - Catalyst Beta (New Cards) ATI - Catalyst 6.6 WHQL NVIDIA - Forceware 91.33 Non-WHQL (7950GX2 Only) NVIDIA - Forceware 84.21 WHQL