Test Setup
Anyone who simply wants to see the performance gains should feel free to skip to "Step Four: Evaluating Gains". Those interested in the raw numbers will want to look through the pages in between.
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| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, 1.86 GHz, 1066 FSB, 2 MB Cache |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 V1.0, BIOS F9 |
| RAM | OCZ System Elite PC2-6400 OCZ2SE8002GK2x 1024 MB, CAS 5-5-5-15 |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD150 GB, 10,000 RPM, 16 MB Cache, SATA 150 |
| Networking | Marvell Yukon Gigabit PHY, enabled, offline |
| Graphics Card | Asus EAX1950PRO 256 MBGPU: ATI Radeon X1950PRO (581 MHz)RAM: 256 MB GDDR3 (1404 MHz) |
| Power Supply | OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI - 700W |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| OS | Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 2 |
| DirectX Version | 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| Platform Driver | Intel INF 8.1.0.1010 |
| Graphics Driver | ATI Catalyst 6.12 |
Increased performance is what drives us to overclock, but these gains will only affect some parts of the system. Because overclocking is meant to boost CPU, RAM, and graphics performance, we concentrated on these three areas during testing.
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| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| 3D-Games | |
| F.E.A.R | Version: 1.0 RetailVideo Mode: 1024x768Computer: MediumGraphics: MediumTest Path: Options/Performance/Test Settings |
| Quake 4 | Version: 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)Video Mode: 1024x768Video Quality: defaultTHG Timedemo waste.maptimedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures) |
| Audio | |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.97 Beta 2 (12-22-2005)Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 minwave to mp3160 kbps |
| OGG | Version 1.1.2 (Intel P4 MOD)Version 1.1.2 (Intel AMD MOD)Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 minwave to oggQuality: 5 |
| Video | |
| TMPEG 3.0 Express | Version: 3.0.4.24 (no Audio)fist 5 Minutes DVD Terminator 2 SE (704x576) 16:9Multithreading by rendering |
| DivX 6.2 | Version: 6.2.2 (4 Logical CPUs)Profile: High Definition Profile1-pass, 3000 kb/sEncoding mode: Insane QualityEnhanced multithreadingno Audio |
| XviD 1.1.0 | Version: 1.1.0 Beta 2Target quantizer: 1.00 |
| Applications | |
| Autodesk 3D Studio Max | Version: 8.0Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"Rendering HTDV 1920x1080 |
| Synthetics | |
| PCMark05 Pro | Version: 1.1.0CPU, Memory, Graphics Test SuitesWindows Media Player 10.00.00.3646Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980 |
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