7 - Hardware and Software Used
Hardware and Software Used
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
ProcessorsCore 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
