Test systems

System Setup

AMD Athlon 64 3800+

Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 nForce3 Ultra chipset

1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 SDRAM

ATI X800 XT Platinum Edition
Driver version CATALYST 4.7
Driver version beta CATALYST 4.9 (b4.9 in the graphs)

eVGA e-GeForce FX 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition
Leadtek WinFast A400
ASUS V9999 Gamer Edition @325/700MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Reference board
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Reference board
Driver version 61.77

250GB Maxtor Hard Drive Maxline III SATA Hard Drive w/16MB Cache

Windows XP Professional SP1

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

DOOM 3