System Setup

System Setup

AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Intel Pentium 4 3.46GHz Extreme Edition
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition
Intel Pentium 4 570J 3.8GHz
Intel Pentium 4 560J 3.6GHz
Intel Pentium 4 550J 3.4GHz
Intel Pentium 4 540J 3.2GHz
Intel Pentium 4 520J 2.8GHz

MSI 7025 Socket 939 nForce3 Ultra Motherboard
ASUS A7N8X Socket A nForce2 Motherboard
Intel D925XECV2 LGA775 925X Motherboard

1GB Corsair 3-3-3-8 533MHz DDR2 Memory (2x512MB)
1GB Corsair 2-2-2-5 400MHz DDR Memory (2x512MB)

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB (AGP)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB (PCI Express)
Forceware 66.93

34GB Western Digital Raptor (10,000RPM, 8MB cache)

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2

DirectX 9.0c

Desktop resolution 1024x768, 32-bit color, 85Hz refresh

All power saving options were turned off, as were the Automatic Update and System Restore services. Graphics options under the ‘Performance’ tab were all disabled for maximum performance.

Benchmarks

Half-Life 2
D1_trainstation_02.dem

This demo is recorded outside the train station in City 17. There are relatively few actors and little to tax graphics hardware. Consequentially, the demo tends to be bound by host processor performance – ideal for testing high-end and mid-range CPUs