Now we begin the benchmarking portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system and the software we used.

Mainboards

NVIDIA NFORCE 750i SLI Intel eVGA FTW mainboard

Processors
Core 2 Quad Q6600

Graphics Card

GeForce 9800 GTX 512 MB (BFG)

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS4

Power Supply Unit

Enermax Galaxy 1000W

Monitor

2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200

OS related Software

Windows Vista Business edition 32-bit
DirectX 9.0c/10.0 End User Runtime latest update
NVIDIA ForceWare 174.73
NVIDIA nForce 680 platform driver 9.46

Software benchmark suite

PCMark 2004
PCMark 2005
PCMark Vantage
SiSoft Sandra
MPEG Encoding
DiVX Encoding
WMV Encoding
Everest
Ghost Recon: AW
F.e.a.r.
Call of Duty 4
Crysis