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Test Setup

07:00 - Wednesday 6 April 2005 by Patrick Schmid

Processors
266 MHz FSB (FSB1066)	Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz 2 MB L2-Cache, HT enabled
Motherboard
Socket 775	NVIDIA Reference Motherboard Chipset: nForce4 Intel Edition BIOS: 4.86
Socket 775	ASUS P5AD2-E Platinum Chipset: Intel 925XE BIOS: 1004 Final
RAM
DDR2-533	2x 512 MB Corsair TwinX CM2X512A-5400C4 Timings: CL 3-3-3-8
DDR2-667	2x 512 MB Corsair TwinX CM2X512A-5400LU Timings: CL 3-3-3-8 (533), CL 4-3-3-10 (667)
Common Hardware
Graphics Cards	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Memory: 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM
Hard Drive	Western Digital WD740 Raptor 74 GB, 8 MB Cache, 10,000 RPM, SATA
RAID Test Drives	Western Digital WD1600SD 160 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7,200 RPM, SATA
DVD/CD-ROM	MSI MS-8216 16x DVD
Software
Graphics Driver	NVIDIA Detonator 71.84
Chipset Driver	NVIDIA Forceware 7.02
Intel Chipset	Intel Chipset Installation Utility 6.3.0.1007
DirectX	9.0c
OS	Windows XP Professional, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

Benchmarks and Settings OpenGL
Wolfenstein	Version: 2.56 (Patch V 1.02)
Enemy Territory	1280x1024, 32 bit timedemo 1 / demo demo4 Geometric detail = high Texture detail = high
Doom III	Version: 1.0.1262 1024x768, 32 bit Video Quality = High Quality
DirectX 8
Unreal Tournament 2004	Version: 3204 1280x1024, 32 bit, Audio = off THG8-assault-single
DirectX 9
FarCry	Version 1.1 Build 1256 (Cooler01= 1280x1024, 32 bit Quality Options = Very High
Video
Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus	Version: 9.1.2 from: 352x288, MPEG-2, 41 MB to: 720x576, MPEG-2, 95 MB Encoding and Transition Rendering to MPEG-2/DVD no Audio
Auto Gordian Knot DivX 5.2 XviD 1.0.3	Version: 1.89 Beta Audio = AC3 6ch Custom size = 100 MB Resolution settings = Fixed width Codec = XviD and DivX 5 Audio = CBR MP3, kbps 192 182 MB VOB MPEG2-source
Audio
Lame MP3	Version 3.96 Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp3 32 - 320 kbit VBR = level 3
Applications
3D Studio Max 6.0 Discreet	Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig" Pixel: 1024x768 Rendering Single
Synthetic
PCMark 2004 Pro	Version: 1.3.0 CPU Benchmark, Memory Benchmark
SiSoft Sandra 2005 Pro	MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic Memory Bandwidth Benchmark