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Hardware and Software Used
Now we begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system plus the software we used.

Mainboards

NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI Intel Edition mainboard (reference)
NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI AMD edition mainboard (Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H)

Processors

AMD64 Athlon FX-62
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo E6700
Core 2 Exreme X6800

Graphics Cards

GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS3 Corsair

Power Supply Unit

Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt

Monitor

2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200

OS related Software

Windows XP Professional SP2
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime March update
NVIDIA ForceWare 91.27 beta
NVIDIA nForce 500 platform driver 9.34

Software benchmark suite

SiSoft Sandra
MPEG Encoding
DiVX Encoding
WMV Encoding
Virus Check
File Encoding/Decoding
3DMark05
3DMark06
AquaMark 3
Doom 3
Far Cry
Ghost Recon: AW
F.e.a.r.

We used a reference NFORCE 590 SLI for Intel mainboard to test the processors

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