Is Your PC Ready for a System Update?
Features
By
Patrick Schmid 
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Test Setup
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| Motherboard | |
|---|---|
| CPU I | AMD 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 & RAM | Asus 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 I | Hitachi 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-ROM | Teac DV-W50 (4x DVD/16x CD), UltraATA | 
| Graphics Card I | ATI 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 Card | Integrated | 
| Power Supply | Enermax EG565P-VEATX 2.01, 510 Watt | 
| System Software & Drivers | |
| OS | Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2 | 
| DirectX Version | 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) | 
| Platform Drivers Nvidia | Version 6.86 | 
| Graphics Drivers ATI | Catalyst Suite 7.8 | 
| Graphics Drivers Nvidia | Forceware 162.18 | 
Benchmarks And Settings
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| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| 3D-Games | |
| Quake 4 | Version: 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)Video Mode: 1280x1024Video Quality: highTHG Timedemo waste.maptimedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures) | 
| Audio | |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.97 Beta 2 (12-22-2005)Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 minwave to mp3160 kbps | 
| Video | |
| TMPEG 3.0 Express | Version: 3.0.4.24 (no Audio)fist 5 Minutes DVD Terminator 2 SE (704x576) 16:9Multithreading by rendering | 
| DivX 6.6 | Version: 6.6 (4 Logical CPUs)Profile: High Definition Profile1-pass, 3000 kbit/sEncoding mode: Insane QualityEnhanced multithreadingno Audio | 
| XviD 1.1.3 | Version: 1.1.3Target quantizer: 1.00 | 
| Applications | |
| Winrar | Version 3.70(303 MB, 47 Files, 2 Folders)Compression = BestDictionary = 4096 kB | 
| Autodesk 3D Studio Max | Version: 8.0Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"Rendering HTDV 1920x1080 | 
| Cinebench | Version: R101 CPU, x CPU run | 
| Bapco Sysmark | Version: 2007 PreviewOfficial Run | 
| Synthetics | |
| PCMark05 Pro | Version: 1.2.0CPU and Memory TestsWindows Media Player 10.00.00.3646Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980 | 
| Sisoft Sandra 2007 | Version: 11.80Memory Bandwidth | 
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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.
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