One Gigabyte Motherboard, Four Graphics Cards

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Processor(s)Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 8403.2 GHz, FSB800, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache
Motherboard(s)Gigabyte GA-8N SLI QUAD Royal (Rev. 1.0, BIOS D6)NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Chipset, nForce4 SLI Chipset
RAMCorsair CM2X512A-5400UL (XMS5400 V1.2)2x 512 MB - DDR2-667 (333 MHz, CL3-2-2-8-1T)
Hard DriveHitachi DeskStar 7K250250 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache
NetworkingOn-board nForce4 GbE Network Controller
Graphics CardAsus Extreme N7800 GT-2DHTV, GeForce 7800 GTMSI NX7800GTX.VT2D256E, GeForce 7800 GTXGigabyte 3D1 Rev. 2.0, 2x GeForce 6600 GT
Power SupplyTagan TG480-U01, ATX 2.01, 480 W
System Software & Drivers
OSWindows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform DriverNVIDIA Forceware 7.13
Graphics DriverNVIDIA Forceware 77.77
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Benchmarks and Settings
OpenGL
Doom IIIVersion : 1.0.12621280x1024, 32 BitVideo Quality = High Qualitydemo1Graphics detail = High Quality
DirectX 8
Unreal Tournament 2004Version : 32041280x1024, 32 Bit, Audio = offTHG8-assault-single
DirectX 9
FarCryVersion 1.1 Build 12561280x1024 - 32 Bitqualtity options = High
Audio
Lame MP3Version 3.97.1 Multi-threaded AlphaWave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp332 - 320 kbitVBR = level 3
Applications
WinRARVersion 3.41283 MB, 246 FilesCompression = BestDictionary = 4096 kB
3DS Max 7Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"1600x1200Rendering Single
Synthetic
PCMark 2005 ProVersion : 1.0.1System, CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoftware Sandra ProVersion 2005, SR1CPU Test = Multimedia BenchmarkMemory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark
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.