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Test Setup

06:00 - Monday 3 January 2005 by Patrick Schmid

Test Setup

AMD Processors (Socket 939)
200 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR400)	Athlon 64 4000+ (2400 MHz 128/1024 kB)
Memory
DDR400 I	2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz) Corsair TwinX CMX512-3200XL Timings : CL 2.0-2-2-5
DDR400 II	2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz) OCZ Platinum Rev 2 Timings : CL 2.0-2-2-5
Common Hardware
Graphics Card I PCI-Express	NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series GPU : NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Memory : 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM
Graphics Card II AGP	Sparkle GeForce 6800 GT GPU : NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Memory : 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM
Hard Drive	Hitachi DeskStar 7K250 HDS722525VLSA80 250 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7200 rpm, SATA
DVD/CD-ROM	MSI MS-8216 16x DVD
Software
NVIDIA Graphic	Detonator 66.93
NVIDIA Chipset Driver	Forceware 5.10
NVIDIA Chipset Driver (nForce4)	Forceware 6.31 beta
VIA Chipset Driver	Hyperion 5.55
SiS AGP Driver	1.17e
SiS IDE Driver	2.04a
DirectX	9.0c
OS	Windows XP Professional, 5.1.2600

Benchmarks And Settings

Benchmarks and Settings OpenGL
Wolfenstein	Version : 2.55
Enemy Territory	1024 x 786 - 32 bit timedemo 1 / demo demo4 Graphics detail = Normal
3D Studio Max 6.0	Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"
Discreet	Pixel : 1280 x 1024 Rendering Single
Doom 3	Version 1.0.1262 1024 x 768 - 32 bit medium quality timedemo demo1
DirectX 8
Unreal Tournament 2004	Version : 3204 1024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = off thg9 assault botmatch
DirectX 9
3DMark 2005	1024 x 786 - 32 bit Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark
FarCry	Version 1.1 Build 1256 1280 x 1024 - 32 bit qualtity options = Very High
Synthetic
PCMark 2004 Pro	Version : 1.2.0 CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoftware Sandra 2005	Version 2005.1.10.37 CPU Test = MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark
Audio
Lame MP3	Version 3.96 Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp3 32 - 320 kbit VBR = level 3
libvorbis OGG	Version : 1.0.1 Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to ogg qualtity = 5
Video
Auto Gordian Knot DivX 5.21 XviD 1.0.2	Version : 1.72 Beta Audio = AC3 6ch Custom size = 100 MB Resulution settings = 640x256 Codec = XviD and DivX 5 Audio = CBR MP3, kbps 192
Pinnacle Studio 9	Version : 9.1.2 Rendering - DVD Compatible no Audio
Applications
Winrar	Version 3.40 303 MB, 47 Files Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB