Test Systems

System Setup

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (for ATI systems)
ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe (for NVIDIA systems)

2GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
Sapphire TOXIC X1950 XTX
Beta Catalyst 6.8

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
Catalyst 6.9

BFG GeForce 7950 GX2
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Driver version ForceWare 91.47

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

Windows XP Professional SP2

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

Half-Life 2 Lost Coast
Far Cry 1.33 (1.4 patch for ATI cards)
F.E.A.R. 1.07
Quake 4 1.2
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Call of Duty 2 1.2

Notes

GeForce 7900 GTX and 7950 GX2 cards are tested with NVIDIA’s image quality set to “high quality”, rather than the default setting of “quality”. This is done to help cut down on the texture shimmering seen in some games. ATI cards are left at their default quality settings.