System Setup

System Setup

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (2.8 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 (2.6 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2 GHz)
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (3.2 GHz)

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard

1GB OCZ Technology DDR-400 CAS 2 Memory (2x1GB)
1GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (2x1GB)

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX with ForceWare 91.27

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

Windows Media Encoder 9
3DMark06
F.E.A.R. 1.04
Pacific Fighters 4.04
Quake 4 1.2
Oblivion
SiSoft Sandra 2007

Notes

Unlike previous tests where we’ve mixed low resolution and high-res tests, for today’s article we’re running our 1600x1200 testing with a pair of GeForce 7900 GTX cards running together for SLI. As you’ll see in today’s results, even at resolutions as high as 16x12, two GeForce 7900 GTX cards are still CPU-bound. We disabled all of NVIDIA’s performance options (such as LinkBoost and GPU overclocking) in the ASUS M2N32’s BIOS, as well as ASUS’ own dynamic clock speed adjustment tool and ASUS PEG Link.