System Setup

System Setup

Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 (3.46 GHz)
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (3.2 GHz)
Intel Pentium D 840 3.2 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4 GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4 GHz)

Intel D975XBX 975X Express Motherboard
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard

1GB OCZ Technology DDR-400 CAS 2 Memory (2x512MB)
1GB Corsair DDR2-675 CAS 3 Memory (2x512MB)

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX with ForceWare 81.98

Western Digital Raptor 34GB 10,000RPM Hard Drive

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.

In an effort to represent the virtues of multi-core processing while still testing the latest games, we’ve mixed media encoding tests, synthetic metrics, and a handful of shooters.

Benchmarks

Windows Media Encoder 9
DivX Converter 6.1
3DMark05
PCMark05
F.E.A.R.
Half-Life 2
Quake 4
Far Cry