System Setup

System Setup

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (975X)
ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP

2GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C3

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX CrossFire
Catalyst 6.9

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX CrossFire
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire
Catalyst 6.10 pre-release beta

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2

DirectX 9.0c

Western Digital Raptor 74GB

Benchmarks

3DMark06
F.E.A.R. 1.07
Call of Duty 2 1.3
Half-Life 2 Lost Coast
Oblivion

Notes

We’re testing with a mixture of both Catalyst 6.9 and Catalyst 6.10 so you can see the performance improvements ATI has integrated into their upcoming 6.10 driver. The 6.10 results will be highlighted in yellow to keep things simple.

The Radeon X1950 XTX results at the end were taken solely with Catalyst 6.10, and ASUS C.G.I. was enabled in BIOS for all CrossFire tests unless otherwise noted.