Abit's Fatal1ty: Motherboards Go Premium

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Test Setup

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Intel Processors (Socket 775)
800 MHz FSB (Dual DDR) Intel Pentium 4 560 (3.6 GHz)
Motherboards
Board I Abit Fatal1ty AA8XEIntel 925XE
Board II Asus P5GD2Intel 915P
Memory
DDR2-533 2x 512 MB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667running at DDR2-533 (266 MHz) and overclockedTimings: CL 4-4-4-12
Common Hardware
Graphics Card ATI Radeon X800 XTGPU: ATI Radeon 800 XTMemory: 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM
Hard Drive Western Digital WD800 JB80 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
DVD/CD-ROM MSI MS-8216 16x DVD
Software
ATI Graphics Catalyst Ver. 8-062-040929a
Intel Chipset Driver Chipset Installation Utility 6.0.1.1002
DirectX Version: 9.0c
OS Windows XP Professional, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

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.