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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