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Hardware and Software Used
Here we begin with the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system plus the software we used.
Mainboard
FOXCONN NFORCE 590 SLI motherboard, Socket AM2
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62, Socket AM2
Graphics Cards
GeForce 6800 XT (PCX) 256 MB
GeForce 7300 GT (PCX) 256 MB
GeForce 7900 GT (PCX) 256 MB
GeForce 7900 GTX (PCX) 512 MB
Memory
2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 - PC-6400 2-3-3-6
Software
Windows XP Professional SP2
NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.39
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
ForceWare 91.33
RivaTuner 2.0 (tweak utility)
Serious Sam 2 (Guru3D custom timedemo)
Far Cry (Guru3D custom timedemo)
Prey (Guru3D custom timedemo)
Ghost recon: Graw
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 Episode One (Guru3D custom timedemo)
3DMark03
3DMark05
3Dmark06
AquaMark 3
Doom 3
Quake 4 (Guru3D custom timedemo)
F.e.a.r
