Budget And Premium Motherboards At The Crossroads

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Processor
Single Core CPUs Intel Pentium 4 Processor 560 (3.6 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache)
Memory
Intel Platform (DDR400) 2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)Corsair Pro Series CMX512-3200XL (XMS3208 V1.1)(CL2.0-2-2-5-1T @ 200 MHz)
Intel Platform (DDR2-667) 2x 512 MB - DDR2-667 (333 MHz)Corsair CM2X512A-5400UL (XMS5400 V1.2)(CL3-2-2-8-1T @ 333 MHz)
Motherboards
Intel Platform MSI 915PL Neo-V Rev. 1.0, BIOS 1.0)Intel 915P ChipsetMSI P4N Neo (Rev. 1.0, BIOS 1.2 )NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition SLI Chipset
System Hardware
Graphics Card (PCIe) NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (Reference Board)GPU : NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (350 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Hard Drive Hitachi Deskstar 7K250250 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7200 rpm
Power Supply Tagan TG480-U01, ATX 2.0, 480 W
Software
NVIDIA Chipset Drivers NVIDIA Forceware 7.13
Intel Chipset Drivers Intel Inf 7.2.1.1003
Graphics Driver NVIDIA Forceware 77.72
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600,Service Pack 2
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.