Tom's Summer CPU Charts Assault

Test System Details

The System

This is one of the Intel platforms using Asus’ P5WDH Deluxe and socket 775.

This was one of our AMD platforms using the M2N32-SLI by Asus for socket AM2.

The only serious hard drive choice for enthusiasts is Western Digital’s WD1500 Raptor, running at 10,000 RPM.

Corsair’s CM2X1024-6400C4 runs at up to 550 MHz (DDR2-1100).

Der CMX1024-6400C3 von Corsair kann in jedem Computershop erworben werden.

We performed all benchmarks using a Gigabyte GV-RX19X512VB-HRH graphics card, which is based on ATI’s Radeon X1900XTX.

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