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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.

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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.