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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.

Mainboard

nVIDIA nForce 680i SLI (eVGA)

Processors

Core 2 Duo X6800 Extreme (Conroe)
Core 2 Duo E6700 (Conroe)
Core 2 Duo E6600 (Conroe)
Core 2 Duo E6400 

Graphics Cards

GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB reference
GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB Sparkle
GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB BFG
GeForce 7900 GTX 512 MB (NVIDIA)
Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB (ATI)

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS4 @ 1142 MHz Dominator Corsair

Power Supply Unit

Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt

Monitor

Dell 3007WFP - up-to 2560x1600

OS related Software

Windows XP Professional SP2
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime October update
NVIDIA ForceWare 96.94 Beta (G80)
NVIDIA ForceWare 93.71 WHQL
ATI Catalyst 6.10
NVIDIA nForce 590/680iplatform driver 9.53

Software benchmark suite

3DMark05
3DMark06
Far Cry (v1.33 with HDR)
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warrior
F.e.a.r.
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
X3: The Reunion
Prey
Call of Duty 2
Serious Sam 2
Battlefield 2