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Test Setup

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Motherboard
CPU IAMD Athlon 64 3500+ (130nm; 2200 MHz, 512 kB L2 Cache)
CPU (Upgrade)AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (90nm; 2200 MHz, 2x512 kB L2 Cache)
Motherboard & RAMAsus A8N-SLI Deluxe, Socket 939 (Rev. 1.02)Nvidia nForce 4 SLI ChipsetPatriot PDC1G3200 XBLK2x 512 MB DDR-400 (CL 2-2-2-5 2T)
Hard Disk Drive IHitachi Deskstar 7K250250 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB cache, SATA/150
Hard Disk Drive II (Upgrade)Seagate Barracuda 7200.10500 GB, 7,200 RPM, 16 MB cache, SATA/300
Hard Disk Drive III (Upgrade)Western Digital Caviar WD7500AAKS750 GB, 7.200 rpm, 16 MB cache, SATA/300
DVD-ROMTeac DV-W50 (4x DVD/16x CD), UltraATA
Graphics Card IATI X850XTGPU: Geforce 8800 GTS (520 MHz)RAM: 256 MB GDDR3 (1040 MHz)
Graphics Card II (Upgrade)Gigabyte Geforce 8600 GTS GV-NX86S256HGPU: Geforce 8800 GTS (675 MHz)RAM: 512 MB GDDR3 (2000 MHz)
Graphics Card III (Upgrade)Zotac Geforce 8800 GTSGPU: Geforce 8800 GTS (500 MHz)RAM: 320 MB GDDR3 (1600 MHz)
Sound CardIntegrated
Power SupplyEnermax EG565P-VEATX 2.01, 510 Watt
System Software & Drivers
OSWindows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform Drivers NvidiaVersion 6.86
Graphics Drivers ATICatalyst Suite 7.8
Graphics Drivers NvidiaForceware 162.18

Benchmarks And Settings

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Benchmarks and Settings
3D-Games
Quake 4Version: 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)Video Mode: 1280x1024Video Quality: highTHG Timedemo waste.maptimedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures)
Audio
Lame MP3Version 3.97 Beta 2 (12-22-2005)Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 minwave to mp3160 kbps
Video
TMPEG 3.0 ExpressVersion: 3.0.4.24 (no Audio)fist 5 Minutes DVD Terminator 2 SE (704x576) 16:9Multithreading by rendering
DivX 6.6Version: 6.6 (4 Logical CPUs)Profile: High Definition Profile1-pass, 3000 kbit/sEncoding mode: Insane QualityEnhanced multithreadingno Audio
XviD 1.1.3Version: 1.1.3Target quantizer: 1.00
Applications
WinrarVersion 3.70(303 MB, 47 Files, 2 Folders)Compression = BestDictionary = 4096 kB
Autodesk 3D Studio MaxVersion: 8.0Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"Rendering HTDV 1920x1080
CinebenchVersion: R101 CPU, x CPU run
Bapco SysmarkVersion: 2007 PreviewOfficial Run
Synthetics
PCMark05 ProVersion: 1.2.0CPU and Memory TestsWindows Media Player 10.00.00.3646Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980
Sisoft Sandra 2007Version: 11.80Memory Bandwidth