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Hardware Configuration

07:00 - Friday 28 May 2004 by Daniel Schuhmann

Intel Processors (Socket 604)
133 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR266)	Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz (3066 MHz, 12-8/512/1024 kB)
Motherboard
Intel E7505	MSI MS-9141 (E7505 Master2) Rev.1 Bios 1.1B7 (10/07/03)
Memory
DDR400 (200 MHz)	2 x 512 MB / 5ns / 64 Bit (Corsair) CMX512-3200LL (CL 2.0-3-2-6)
Common Hardware
Sound Card	Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space 96.00 kHz sample rate
Graphics Card	Asus A9800XT/TVD, Rev. 1.01 GPU: ATI Radeon 9800XT, 412 MHz Chip Clock Memory: 256 MB DDR-SDRAM, 365 MHz Chip Clock
Hard Drive	FastTrak S150 TX2plus (Bios: 1.00.0.30) 2 x SATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 (Raid 0) 80 GB / 8 MB Cache / 7200 rpm
DVD/CD-ROM	MSI MS-8216 16x DVD
Software
Chipset	Chipset Installation Utility Ver. 5.1.1.1002 IAA RAID Edition 3.5.3
Grpahics	ATI Catalyst XP 4.3 (Driver 6.14.10.6430)
Promise RAID	1.00.0.37
DirectX	Version: 9b
OS	Windows XP, Build 2600 SP1

Benchmarks and Settings
DirectX 9a
3DMark 2003	Version 3.4.0 Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark 1024 x 786 - 32 bit
Video
Mainconcept MPEG Encoder	Version 1.4.1 1.2 GB DV to MPEG II (720x576, Audio) converting
Pinnacle Studio 9	Version: 9.0.0 Rendering - DVD Compatible no Audio
Windows Media Encoder 9	Version: 9.00.00.2980 436 MB AVI File conversion to WMV Windows Media Server (Streaming)
Microsoft Movie Maker	Version 2.0.3312.0 416 MB DV to WMV
TMPGEnc Plus	Version 2.521 1.2 GB DV to MPEG I (720x576, Audio) converting
Audio
magix mp3 maker 2004	Version 4.11 Build 19593
diamond	65 minutes/44.100 KHz wave file (688,4 MB) Format: MP3 High Quality
Syntrillum Cool Edit Pro	Version 2.1 Amplitude Normalizing 2.6 GB Wave Audio file
Applications
Discreet	Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"
3D Studio Max 6.0	Rendering Single, 1024x768
Winrar	Version 3.30 238 MB, 246 Files Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 MB
Newtek Lightwave	Version 7.5c - Build 572 Render First Frame = 1 Render Last Frame = 60 Render Frame Step = 1 Rendering Bench "variation.lws" Show Rendering in Progress = 320x240 Ray Trace Shadows, Reflection, Refraction, Transparency = on Multithreading = 8 Threads
Maxon Cinema 4D XL 8	Version 8.503 Rendering in 1024x768, "ship_dirt"
LIUtilities WinBackup	Version 1.84 650 MB Wave file Encryption: 256 Bit DES, Password "test"
Synthetic
PCMark 2004 Pro	Build 1.1.0 CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoftware Sandra 2004	Version 2004.10.9.89 CPU Test: CPU Multimedia / CPU Arithmetic Memory Test: Memory Bandwidth Benchmark