Test Systems

System Setup

AMD Athlon 64 3500+

MSI K8N Diamond Plus (nForce4 SLI X16)

2GB OCZ DDR400 Platinum

ATI Radeon X1600 Pro
Catalyst 6.6

EVGA e-GeForce 7600GS w/passive heatsink
XFX GeForce 7600GS Xtreme Edition
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Reference Board
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Reference Board
Driver version ForceWare 91.31

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

Windows XP Professional SP1

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

3DMark 06
Pacific Fighters 4.04 (with Perfect landscape setting for ATI and NVIDIA)
Half-Life 2 Lost Coast
Far Cry 1.33 (1.4 patch for ATI cards)
F.E.A.R. 1.05
Quake 4 1.2
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion