PCI Express Scaling Analysis

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Socket 775 Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe 65 nm, 2.93 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp EditionChipset : Intel 975X, BIOS : 2007-01-24
Common Hardware
RAM 2x 1024 MB DDR2-8000 (CL 4.0-4-4-12)Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 XMS6403v1.1
Graphics Card I HIS X1900XTX IceQ3GPU : ATI Radeon X1900XTX (650 MHz)RAM : 512 MB GDDR3 (1,550 MHz)
Graphics Card II Zotec GeForce 8800 GTSGPU : GeForce 8800 GTS (500 MHz)RAM : 320 MB GDDR3 (1,200 MHz)
Hard Drive 400 GB, 7,200 RPM, 16 MB cache, SATA/300Western Digital WD4000KD
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Software
Graphics Driver I ATI Catalyst Suite 7.2
Graphics Driver II Nvidia ForceWare 97.92
Platform Drivers Intel Chipset Installation Utility 8.1.1.1010
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP Professional, Build 2600 SP2

Benchmarks And Settings

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Benchmarks and Settings
3D-Games
Call Of Duty 2 Version : 1.3 RetailVideo Mode : 1600x1200Anti Aliasing : 4xTexture Filter : AnisotropicTimedemo demo2
Quake 4 Version : 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)Video Mode : 1600x1200Video Quality : Ultra (ATI)/High(Nvidia)Anti Aliasing : 4xMulti CPU : YesTHG Timedemo waste.maptimedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures)
Applications
SPECviewperf 9 Version : 9.03All Tests
3D Mark06 Version : 1.1Video Mode : 1600x1200Anti Aliasing : 4xAnisotropic Filter : 8x
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.