Test systems

System Setup

AMD Athlon 64 3800+

ECS KN1 Extreme

1GB OCZ EL DDR400 Platinum Edition Rev 2

ATI RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition
ATI RADEON X850 XT
ATI RADEON X800 XL
Driver version CAT 5.3

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Driver version 71.84 final

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

Windows XP Professional SP1

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory 1.1

Notes

We’re running with the default demo included with the game for our first performance article so you can compare our scores to your system. Future articles will use custom demos.