The Pentium Elite, Part 2: 955X versus nForce4 IE

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Processor
Processor Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840(3.2 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache)
Memory
Intel Platform (Premium) 2x 512 MB - DDR2-667 (333 MHz)Corsair CM2X512A-5400UL (XMS5400 V1.2)(CL3-2-2-8-1T @ 333 MHz)
Motherboards
Sockel 775 Asus P5WD2 Premium (Rev. 1.02, BIOS 0422)Intel 955X ChipsetAbit AW8-Max (Rev. 1.0, BIOS 1.2)Intel 955X ChipsetIntel D955XBK (BIOS 1959)Intel 955X ChipsetFoxconn 955X7AA(Rev. 1.0, BIOS 2005-05-18 )Intel 955X ChipsetGigabyte 8I955X Royal (Rev. 1.1 , BIOS F7)Intel 955X Chipset
System Hardware
Graphics card (PCIe) Asus Geforce 7800 GTGPU : NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT (400 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Hard drive Hitachi Deskstar 7K250250 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
Network 3Com 3C905B-TX
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Power supply unit Tagan TG480-U01, ATX 2.0, 480 W
Software
Chipset driver NVIDIA Forceware 7.13
Graphics driver NVIDIA Forceware 77.77
DirectX version Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
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.