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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 and hardware we used.

Mainboard

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

Processor

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 +, Socket 939 (review)

Graphics Cards

GeForce 6600 GT (PCX) 128 MB, NVIDIA Reference
GeForce 7600 GS (PCX) 256 MB, Galaxy Technology
GeForce 7600 GT (PCX) 256 MB, NVIDIA Reference (review)
GeForce 7900 GT (PCX) 256 MB, NVIDIA Reference
ATI Radeon X1800 GTO (PCX), 256 MB ATI Reference (review)
 

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
NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.39
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
Catalyst 6.4
ForceWare 84.17
RivaTuner 2.0 (tweak utility)

Far Cry (Guru3D custom timedemo)
Splinter Cell (Guru3D custom timedemo)
Splinter Cell 3 Chaos Theory (Guru3D custom timedemo)
Half-Life 2  (Guru3D custom timedemo)
3DMark03
3DMark05
3DMark06
AquaMark 3
Doom 3
Quake 4
Serious Sam 2
F.e.a.r
X3: The Reunion
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (FRAPS)