Test System Specs And Software Setup
Hardware Setup
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| Test System Specs | |
|---|---|
| Operating System 2 | Microsoft Windows XP Home (32-bit) |
| Processor | Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.41 GHz |
| Motherboard | Biostar P4M80-M4 |
| Memory | 768 MB DDR @ 333 MHz |
| Graphics | Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 128 MB DDR (AGP) |
| Storage | Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJD, 160GB EIDE, 7,200 RPM |
| Optical 1 | Hitachi-LG DVD GDR-8163B |
| Optical 2 | Hitachi-LG CD-RW GCE-8483B |
The following table contains the system specs of the local Web server used for our Startup and Page Load Time tests as well as JSGameBench.
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| Local Web Server Specs | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition "Lucid Lynx" (32-bit) |
| Processor | AMD Athlon @ 1150 MHz |
| Motherboard | Soyo Dragon Platinum |
| Memory | 512 MB DDR |
| Graphics | AMD Radeon 9550, 256 MB GDDR |
| Storage | 40 GB Western Digital HDD WD400BB |
| Optical | Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616T |
| Extra Packages | Apache2, MySQL Client, MySQL Server, PHP5, PHP-GD, PHP5-MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, SSH |
The table below holds additional information on the test network.
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| Network Specs | |
|---|---|
| ISP Service | Cox Premium (28 Mb/s down, 5 Mb/s up) |
| Modem | Motorola SURFboard SBS101U |
| Router | Linksys WRT54G2 V1 |
Software Setup
Both test installations were freshly installed and fully updated as of midnight on March 27th. Power management and automatic updating were disabled before testing.
All the software we installed, including the exact version number of the browsers tested, is listed in the table below.
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| Software | Version |
|---|---|
| Chrome | 18.0.1025.142m |
| Firefox | 11.0 |
| Internet Explorer | 8.0.6001.18702 |
| Opera | 11.62 (build 1347) |
| Safari | 5.1.4 (7534.54.16) |
| Adobe Flash | 11.2.202.228 |
| Microsoft Silverlight | 4.1.10111.0 |
| Oracle Java | 6.0.310 |
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