Test Setup
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| AMD Processors (Socket 939) | |
|---|---|
| 200 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR400) | Athlon 64 4000+ (2400 MHz, 1024 kB L2) |
| Motherboards | |
| Board I | ATI RS480 Reference MotherboardBIOS B10, CPU Clock 2409 MHz |
| Board II | Asus A8VVIA K8T800 ProBIOS 1007, CPU CLock 2403 MHz |
| Board III | MSI 8KN Neo2NVIDIA nForce 3 250GbBIOS 1.3, CPU Clock 2411 MHz |
| Memory | |
| DDR-400 I | 2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)Corsiar TwinX CMX512-3200XLTimings: CL 2.0-2-2-5 |
| DDR-400 II | 2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)OCZ Platinum Rev 2Timings: CL 2.0-2-2-5 |
| Common Hardware | |
| Graphics Card IPCI-Express | NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series Reference BoardGPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTMemory: 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM |
| Graphics Card IIAGP | Sparkle GeForce 6800 GTGPU: nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTMemory: 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM |
| Graphics Card IIIPCI-Express | ATI Radeon Xpress 200GGPU: RV370Memory: Shared |
| Graphics Card IVPCI-Express | ATI Radeon X600 XTGPU: Radeon X600 XTMemory: 128 MB DDR-SDRAM |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital WD740 Raptor74 GB, 8 MB Cache, 10000 rpm |
| DVD, CD-ROM | MSI MS-8216 16x DVD |
| Software | |
| ATI Graphic | Catalyst Ver. 8-062-040929a |
| ATI Graphic Radeon Xpress | Catalyst Ver. 8.07-041019a |
| Nvidia Graphic | Detonator Ver. 61.77 |
| ATI Chipset Driver | South Bridge/IXP Driver Ver 1.4 |
| Nvidia Chipset Driver | nForce Ver. 5.10 |
| VIA Chipset Driver | Hyperion Ver. 5.53 |
| DirectX | Version: 9c |
| OS | Windows XP Professional, 5.1.2600, Service Pack 1 |
As motherboards with Nvidia's nForce4 or VIA's K8T890 are not yet available, we included the AGP chipsets nForce3 Ultra and K8T800 Pro into the benchmark results. The Asus A8V is one of the fastest K8T800 Pro based motherboards, which is why our decision here was easy. In terms of nForce3 Ultra, the K8N Neo by MSI used to perform quite well. However, it recently gained some more performance after updating Nvidia's Forceware drivers to the current release 5.10.