Intel or Nvidia? nForce 680i Challenges Intel P965 and 975X

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System Hardware
Socket 775 Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe 65 nm, 2.93 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard I EVGA nForce 680i SLI Socket 775 (Socket 775)Chipset : Nvidia nForce 680i SLI, BIOS : P20
Motherboard II MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition (Socket 775)Chipset : Intel 975X, BIOS : V7.2
Motherboard III Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (Socket 775)Chipset : Intel P965, BIOS : F7
Common Hardware
RAM 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 3.0-4-3-9)Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 XMS6403v1.1
Graphics Card HIS X1900XTX IceQ3GPU : ATI X1900XTX (650 MHz)
Video Memory : 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 MHz)
Hard Drive I (read) 1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/300Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Hard Drive II (write) 1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/300Western Digital WD1500ADFD
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Software
ATI Graphics Catalyst Suite 6.11
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 8.1.1.1010
Nvidia Chipset Nvidia Forceware 9.53
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2
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.