AMD's 4x4 Platform & Athlon 64 FX-70 - Brute Force Quad Cores

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System Hardware I
Socket F 2x AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 (Windsor 90 nm, 3.0 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard Asus L1N64-SLI WSChipset : Nvidia nForce 680a SLI, BIOS : 117, Rev. 1.01
System Hardware II
Socket 775 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (Kentsfield 64 nm, 2.66 GHz, 2x 4 MB L2 Cache)
Socket 775 Intel Core 2 Extreme EX6800 (Conroe 64 nm, 2.93 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard EVGA nForce 680i SLI 775 MainboardChipset : Nvidia nForce 680i SLI, BIOS : P20
Common Hardware
RAM 4x 1024 MB DDR2-1111 (CL 4.0-4-4-12)Corsair CM2X1024-8888D5 XMS8805v1.2
Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce 7900GTXGPU : ATI X1900XTX (650 MHz)RAM : 512 MB GDDR3 (1600 MHz)
Hard Drive I (read) 1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/300Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Hard Drive II (write) 1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/300Western Digital WD1500ADFD
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Software
Nvidia Graphic Forceware 93.71
Nvidia nForce 680i Series Forceware 9.53
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2
Patrick Schmid
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.

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