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Test Setup

06:00 - Monday 7 November 2005 by Patrick Schmid

System Hardware
Socket 775 Processors	AMD Opteron 248 (Sledgehammer 130 nm, 2.2 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache) AMD Opteron 275 (Italy 90 nm, 2.2 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache)
Intel Platform	Asus K8N-DL (Socket 940), Rev. 1.03 NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200, BIOS 1006
RAM I	Corsair CM72SD512RLP-3200 2x 512 MB DDR-400 (200 MHz, CL3-3-3-8, 1T)
RAM II	Crucial 18VDDF12872G-40BD3 2x 1024 MB DDR-400 (200 MHz, CL3-3-3-8, 1T)
Hard Drive	Western Digital WD740 Raptor 74 GB, 10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache, SATA150
Networking	Broadcom BCM5751 PCI-Express Gb controller
Graphics Card	Extreme N7800GT/2DHTV (PCI Express) GeForce 7800GT (400 MHz), 256 MB GDDR3 (500 MHz)
Power Supply	Enermax EG565P-VE, ATX 2.01, 535 W
System Software & Drivers
OS	Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version	9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform Drivers	NVIDIA nForce4 6.66 AMD Edition
Graphics Driver	NVIDIA ForceWare 81.85

Benchmarks and Settings
Video
Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus	Version: 9.4.3 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 6 XviD 1.1	Version: 2.16 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
Windows Media Encoder	Version: 9.00.00.2980 720x480 DV to WMV 320x240 (29.97 fps) 282 kbps streaming
Audio
Lame MP3	Version 3.97.1 Multi-threaded Alpha Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp3 32 - 320 kbit VBR = level 3
libvorbis OGG	Version: 1.0.1 WAV 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to ogg quality = 5
Applications
WinRAR	Version 3.51 283 MB, 246 Files Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB
3DS Max 7	Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig" 1600x1200 Rendering Single
Cinema 4D	Version R9 Lanz.c4d 800x600
Cinebench	Version 2003 Rendering
Lightwave 3D	Version 8.2 Variatons.lws
POV-Ray	Version 3.7 Skyvase.pov 4800x3600
Synthetic
PCMark 2005 Pro	Version: 1.1.0 System, CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoftware Sandra Pro	Version 2005, SR2 CPU Test I = CPU Arithmetic Benchmark CPU Test II = Multimedia Benchmark Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark
ScienceMark	Version 2.0 All Tests