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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.
Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.
