Page 5 - Benchmarks
Benchmarks and Hardware
For the HDA X-Plosion 7.1 review, Ive built up a new machine for the occasion around an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard and an AMD X2 3800+ CPU. While not the small toaster-sized HTPC one would expect, it is very media-centric. The ASUS board seems to run the CPU a little overclocked at 2010MHz. All drivers are as current as possible, with the exclusion of the video card driver, at the time of writing. I tend to stick with the most stable, and the ForceWare 84.21 are very stable with this rig.
The specifics are below:
- AMD X2 3800+ @2010MHz
- ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (6.86 nForce4 driver)
- 2Gb DDR SDRAM
- 120Gb Seagate 7200.7 SATA drive
- EVGA nVidia GeForce 7800GT CO @470MHz/1.1GHZ (84.21 ForceWare)
- nForce 4 Audio ALC850 (4.65 driver)
- Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic (2.09.0001 driver)
- Auzentech HDA X-Plosion 7.1 DTS-Connect (1.47.3 32bit BETA drivers)
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- DirectX 9.0c
- PCP&C 510SLI
- Logitech Z-680 speakers
- Big honkin screen
Software used in this little exhibition:
For Playback
- PowerDVD 7.0 Deluxe
- WMP 10
- Foobar2000 0.9.2 with kernel-streaming plug-in
- Various DVD, DVD-A, MP3, WAV, and even the odd internet radio station
Utilities
- RMAA 5.5
- RM3D 2.2
- FRAPS 2.7.4 build 5869
- EVEREST 3.00.644-Beta (thanks Stephane)
Games
- F.E.A.R. (v1.06)
- Half Life 2 Episode One (less zombies version)
- Oregon Trail (v1.2)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (v1.3)
Ready... Get set...
