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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 590 SLI Intel Edition mainboard (reference)
NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI AMD edition mainboard (Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H)
Processor
AMD64 Athlon FX-62
Core 2 Duo E6600 clocked at 2.4, 2.8 and 3 GHz
Graphics Cards
GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB (SLi)
Memory
2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS3 Corsair
Power Supply Unit
OCZ Technology Modstream 520W
Monitor
2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200
OS related Software
Windows XP Professional SP2
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime March update
NVIDIA ForceWare 91.27 beta
NVIDIA nForce 500 platform driver 9.34
Software benchmark suite
PCMark 2004PCMark 2005
SiSoft Sandra
MPEG Encoding
DiVX Encoding
WMV Encoding
Virus Check
File Encoding/Decoding
Everest 2.6
3DMark05
3DMark06
AquaMark 3
Doom 3
Far Cry
Ghost Recon: AW
F.e.a.r.
Serious Sam 2
That is not a bad rig to own folks !
