Test Setup and Benchmarks

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550

Foxconn MARS
EVGA 680i A1
Gigabyte P35-DQ6

2GB OCZ PC2-6400 (DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 1.9V)
MSI 8800GTX
160GB Western Digital SATA2

Benchmarks

Lavalys Everest
- Memory Read
- Memory Write
- Memory Latency

3DMark06

Aquamark 3.3

HDTach
- CPU Utilization
- Burst Speed
- Avg. Read Speed
- Latency

Quake 4
- 1024x768 Ultra Quality 4xAA 16xAF
- 1600x1200 Ultra Quality 4xAA 16xAF

Call of Duty 2
- 1024x768 4xAA 16xAF
- 1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF

FEAR
- 1024x768 4xAA 16xAF Maximum Settings
- 1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF Maximum Settings

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Outdoors 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF
- Indoors 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF
- Foliage 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF

Notes: We included 1024x768 benchmarks to let show how the CPU may affect performance if some of the load was removed from the GPU.