The Elitegroup PF88 Extreme: An Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 Motherboard

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Test Setup

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Processors
AMDAthlon 64 3800+ (2.4 GHz, 512 kB L2-Cache)
IntelIntel Pentium 4 Prozessor 560 (3.6 GHz, 1 MB L2-Cache)
RAM
DDR4002x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)OCZ Platinum Rev 2Timings: CL 2.0-2-2-5
DDR2-5332x 1024 MB - DDR2-667 (266-333 MHz)PDP Patriot PDC22G4200+XBLKTimings: CL 3-2-2-8 bei 266 MHz, CL-3-4-4-12 @ 333 MHz
Other System Hardware
Graphics cardNVIDIA GeForce 6 Series, x16 PCI ExpressGPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTMemory: 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM
Hard driveWestern Digital WD740 Raptor74 GB; 10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache, SATA-I
Software
NVIDIA graphics driverDetonator 71.93
SiS IDE/SATA driver2.04a
DirectX9.0c
OSWindows XP Professional, 5.1.2600Service Pack 2

OCZ Platinum DIMMs work with ideal timings of CL2.0-2-2-5.

Benchmarks & Settings

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Benchmarks & SettingsOpenGL
WolfensteinEnemy TerritoryVersion: 2.551024x786, 32 Bittimedemo 1 / demo demo4Graphics detail = Normal
3D Studio Max 7.0DiscreetCharacters "Dragon_Charater_rig"1280x1024Rendering Single
Doom 3Version 1.0.12621024x768, 32 BitHigh Qualitytimedemo demo1
DirectX 8
Unreal Tournament 2004Version: 32041024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = offthg9 assault botmatch
DirectX 9
3DMark 20051024 x 786 - 32 bitGraphics and CPU Default Benchmark
FarCryVersion 1.1 Build 12561024x768, 32 Bitqualtity options = Very High
Synthetic Benchmarks
PCMark 2004 ProVersion: 1.3.0System Benchmark
Audio
Lame MP3Version 3.97 Multi ThreadedWave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp332 - 320 kbitVBR = level 3
libvorbis OGGVersion: 1.0.1Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to oggqualtity = 5
Video
Auto Gordian KnotDivX 5.21XviD 1.0.3Version: 1.72 BetaAudio = AC3 6chCustom size = 100 MBResulution settings = 640x256Codec = XviD and DivX 5Audio = CBR MP3, kbps 192
Pinnacle Studio 9Version: 9.1.2Rendering - DVD Compatibleno Audio
Applications
WinRARVersion 3.40303 MB, 47 Files including 50 MB DatabaseCompression = BestDictionary = 4096 kB
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.