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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.

Mainboards

NVIDIA NFORCE 680i SLI Intel eVGA mainboard
NVIDIA NFORCE 780i SLI Intel XFX mainboard
Intel X38 P5E3 Deluxe Intel ASUS mainboard

Processors

AMD64 Athlon FX-62
Core 2 Duo X6800
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Core 2 Quad QX9650
Core 2 Quad QX9770

Graphics Card
GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS4

Power Supply Unit

Enermax Galaxy 1000W

Monitor

2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200

OS related Software

Windows Vista Business edition 32-bit
DirectX 9.0c/10.0 End User Runtime latest update
NVIDIA ForceWare169.09
NVIDIA nForce 680 platform driver 9.46

Software benchmark suite

PCMark 2004
PCMark 2005
SiSoft Sandra
MPEG Encoding
DiVX Encoding
WMV Encoding
Virus Check
File Encoding/Decoding
Everest
Doom 3
Ghost Recon: AW
F.e.a.r.
Call of Duty 4
Crysis