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violent : Interactive Buddy Unwind on your interactive buddy: Do anything you want to him, it will earn you money, and you can buy other stuff to torture him with.
violent : More Mindless Violence Basic shooting game, but still so powerful! Use the mouse to take aim and shoot at the little beasties before they get to you. Use Space to reload....
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Test Setup

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1:05 PM - 08/23/2005 by Patrick Schmid
Processor
Single Core CPU AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache)
Dual Core CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache)
Memory
AMD Platform (DDR400) 2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)
Corsair Pro Series CMX512-3200XL (XMS3208 V1.1)
(CL2.0-2-2-5-1T @ 200 MHz)
Motherboards
AMD Platform Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (Rev. 1.02, BIOS 1007)
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Chipset
System Hardware
Graphics Card (PCIe) NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT (Reference Board)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT (350 MHz)
Memory: 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Hard Drive Western Digital WD740 Raptor
74 GB, 8 MB Cache, 10,000 rpm
Network integrated NVIDIA GbE Ethernet
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Power Supply Tagan TG480-U01, ATX 2.0, 480 W
Software
Chipset Drivers NVIDIA Forceware 6.53
Chipset Drivers x64 NVIDIA Forceware 6.66
Processor Driver AMD CPU Driver 1.1.0.18
Graphics Driver NVIDIA Forceware 71.84
DirectX Version: 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS 32 Bit Windows XP Professional 5.20.3790,
Service Pack 2
OS 64 Bit Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600,
Service Pack 2

Benchmarks And Settings

OpenGL
Doom III Version: 1.0.1262
1024x768 - 32 bit
Video Quality = High Quality
"custom timedemo"
Graphics detail = High Quality
Wolfenstein Version: 2.56 (Patch V 1.02)
Enemy Territory 1280x1024 - 32 bit
Timedemo 1 / demo demo4
Geometric detail = high
Texture detail = high
DirectX 8
Unreal Tournament 2004 Version: 3204
1280 x 1024 / 32 bit / Audio = off
THG8-assault-single
3DMark2003 Version 3.6.0
1024x768 - 32 bit
Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark
DirectX 9
FarCry Version 1.1 Build 1256
1280x1024 - 32 bit
Quality options = low
3DMark 2005 Version 1.0
1024x768 - 32 bit
Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark
Video
Mainconcept MPEG Encoder Version: 1.4.2
1.2 GB DV to MPEG II
(720x576, Audio) converting
Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus Version: 9.1.2
From: 352x288 MPEG-2 41 MB
to: 720x576 MPEG-2 95 MB
Encoding and Transition Rendering to MPEG-2/DVD
no Audio
Auto Gordian Knot
DivX 5.2.1
XviD 1.0.2
Version: 1.95
Audio = AC3 6ch
Custom size = 100 MB
Resulution settings = Fixed width
Codec = XviD and DivX 5
Audio = CBR MP3, kbps 192
182 MB VOB MPEG2-source
Windows Media Encoder Version: 9.00.00.2980
720x480 DV to WMV
320x240 (29.97 fps)
282 kbps streaming
Windows Media Player 10 Version: 10.00.00.36.46
Audio
Lame MP3 Version 3.96
Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp3
32 - 320 kbit
VBR = level 3
Applications
Winrar Version 3.42
283 MB, 246 Files
Compression = Best
Dictionary = 4096 kB
3D Studio Max 6.0
Discreet
Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"
Pixel: 1024 x 768
Rendering Single
Synthetic
PCMark 2004 Pro Version: 1.3.0
CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoftware Sandra Pro Version 2005, SR1
CPU Test = MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic
Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark
Wstream Version: 5
100 Operations with 25 MB file
Talkback
mr roboto 05/10/2008 5:25 PM
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Woah there's a 64 bit Windows now? What's next 128 bit versions. As I'm still rocking my 8 bit NES.

oneof10 03/11/2009 8:17 PM
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Thank you for the article. Though this article may seem outdated and therefore fairly irrelevant, I just happened upon a free copy of XP 64 and was exploring the value in dual booting my XP 32 system. Thanks for saving me a potential headache for very little benefit.

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