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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
- Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H (Socket AM2 nForce 590 SLi) (review)
Processor
- AMD64 Athlon FX-62 processor (Socket AM2) (review)
Graphics Cards
- GeForce 6800 XT (PCX) 256 MB,
- GeForce 7300 GT (PCX) 256 MB, Galaxy Technology
- GeForce 7600 GS (PCX) 256 MB, Galaxy Technology
- GeForce 7600 GST (PCX) 256 MB, Inno3D
Monitor
- 2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200
Memory
- Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 (SLI-Ready) DDR2 DIMMs (CM2X1024-8500C5) (review)
Power Supply Unit
- OCZ Technology Modstream 520W (review)
Software (Apps)
- Windows XP Professional SP2
- NVIDIA nForce 500 Platform Driver
- DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
- Catalyst 6.5
- ForceWare 91.31
- RivaTuner 2.0 (tweak utility)
Software (Test suite)
- Far Cry (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Splinter Cell (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Splinter Cell 3 Chaos Theory (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Half-Life 2 (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One (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)
