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Test Setup

07:00 - Wednesday 27 April 2005 by Patrick Schmid

Test Setup

Processors
AMD	Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4 GHz, 512 kB L2-Cache)
Intel	Intel Pentium 4 Prozessor 560 (3.6 GHz, 1 MB L2-Cache)
RAM
DDR400	2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz) OCZ Platinum Rev 2 Timings : CL 2.0-2-2-5
DDR2-533	2x 1024 MB - DDR2-667 (266-333 MHz) PDP Patriot PDC22G4200+XBLK Timings : CL 3-2-2-8 bei 266 MHz, CL-3-4-4-12 @ 333 MHz
Other System Hardware
Graphics card	NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series, x16 PCI Express GPU : NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Memory : 256 MB GDDR3-SDRAM
Hard drive	Western Digital WD740 Raptor 74 GB ; 10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache, SATA-I
Software
NVIDIA graphics driver	Detonator 71.93
SiS IDE/SATA driver	2.04a
DirectX	9.0c
OS	Windows XP Professional, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

OCZ Platinum DIMMs work with ideal timings of CL2.0-2-2-5. Benchmarks & Settings

Benchmarks & Settings OpenGL
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory	Version : 2.55 1024x786, 32 Bit timedemo 1 / demo demo4 Graphics detail = Normal
3D Studio Max 7.0 Discreet	Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig" 1280x1024 Rendering Single
Doom 3	Version 1.0.1262 1024x768, 32 Bit High 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 1024x768, 32 Bit qualtity options = Very High
Synthetic Benchmarks
PCMark 2004 Pro	Version : 1.3.0 System Benchmark
Audio
Lame MP3	Version 3.97 Multi Threaded 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 1.0.3	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 including 50 MB Database Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB