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The THG Reference System

The THG Reference System

Below is the test system we ran our tests on for the main reference point.

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Test System
CPU	AMD FX-55 (2.6 GHz)
FSB	200 MHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (939 nForce4 SLI)
Memory	1 GB - 2x Corsair PC4400 at 200 MHz 512 MB
HDD	Western Digital 10,000rpm 74 GB Raptor S-ATA (8 MB)
Power Supply	Enermax EG851AX 660W
CPU Cooling Solution	Zalman CU-CNPS 7700-CU
Drivers & Configuration
Graphics	ATI Catalyst v5.8NVIDIA v77.77
Chipset	nForce4 SLI
OS	Windows XP Prof. SP2
DirectX	DirectX 9.0c
Graphic cards used in this article
ATI	Radeon X850 XT PE (ATI)
NVIDIA	GeForce 6800 Ultra OC (BFG Tech)GeForce 7800 GTX (NVIDIA Reference)

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