AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Processor

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To make sure that the graphics card is not a bottleneck we'll be using the all new GeForce 7800 GT graphics cards and equip the system with two gigabyte of today's fastest memory available.

I'll show you a little shock and awe.

Mainboards

Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard, nForce4 SLI, Socket 939

Processor

AMD Athlon 64 FX-60, Socket 939

Graphics Cards

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT (PCX), 256 MB

Monitor

2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200

Memory

2048

MB (2x1024MB) DDR1 - PC-3200 2-3-2-6 (review)

Power Supply Unit

OCZ Technology Modstream 520W (review)

Software

Windows XP Professional SP2
Intel Chipset Driver 6.3.0.1008
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
ForceWare 71.84
RivaTuner 2.0 (tweak utility)

PCMark 2004
PCMark 2005
SiSoft Sandra
MPEG Encoding
DVD -> DiVX Encoding
Winstone 2004 - Content
Winstone 2004 - Business
Half Life 2
Doom 3
UT 2004
Aquamark3
3DMark03
3DMark05

We are a hardware news, test and review website with an audience that are primarily gamers, therefore we will review CPU's in a somewhat different way then other sites tend to do, mostly with gamers benchmarks in various resolutions. Not because we like them so much, no because I know you want to see that. We'll go in-depth the gamers way. We will also test games under normal settings and conditions.

Let me explain, the best way to produce benchmarks scores in a gaming environment for a CPU is to lower the screen resolution and measure at 16-bit. Why you ask? Well, the graphics card bottleneck is a key issue here. At a certain point your graphics card becomes the more important and dominating factor to influence overall performance. I believe that the CPU and graphics card are a symbiosis though. There's only one important rule I uphold strongly and that is to use one of the fastest graphics cards available to date and use that to produce results. Do you care how CPU's rate at 640x480 @ 16 bit? No, we don't either, therefore we are testing hardware the way you play it at home as well.

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