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Test Setup

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Processor
Socket 604 Dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 512 kB Cache, FSB533
System Components
DDR-SDRAM 2x 512 MB PC3200 Samsung, ECC, Registered
Motherboard Asus PP-DLWIntel E7501 Chipset
Graphics Card Matrox G450, 32 MB
Hard Drive System drive: Western Digital WD1000JB7,200 rpm, 8 MBCache
Controller LSI Logic 21320U320, 1 Channel
Software
Intel Chipset Intel Chipset Installation Utility 5.1.1.1002Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.53
DirectX 9.0b
OS Windows XP Professional Build 2600 Service Pack 1
Benchmarks & Settings
Transfer-PerformanceBenchmark c't h2benchw Ver. 3.6
Transfer Diagram Winbench 99 2.0Disk Inspection Test
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver Benchmark PatternWebserver Benchmark PatternDatabase Benchmark PatternWorkstation Benchmark PatternThroughput Benchmark Pattern
Application Performance Winbench 99 2.0Disk WinmarksDisk Inspection
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.