Test Setup
01:19 - Tuesday 19 September 2006 by Don Woligroski
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: toms, socket, am2, motherboard, summer, slam, uk
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: toms, socket, am2, motherboard, summer, slam, uk
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Test Setup
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| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Socket AM2 | AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (Windsor 90 nm, 2.80 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache) |
| RAM | 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 4.0-4-4-8)
Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 XMS6404v1.1 |
| Graphics Card | MSI RX1900XTXVT2D512E
GPU: ATI X1900XTX (650 MHz) RAM: 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 MHz) |
| Hard Drive I (read) | 1x 150 GB 10.000 rpm, 8 MB cache, SATAII
Western Digital WD1500ADFD |
| Hard Drive II (write) | 1x 150 GB 10.000 rpm, 8 MB cache, SATAII
Western Digital WD1500ADFD |
| DVD-ROM | Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x) |
| Software | |
| ATI Graphic | Catalyst 6.8 |
| ATI Chipset | Catalyst 6.8 |
| Nvidia nForce 500 Series | Forceware 9.35 |
| DirectX | Version: 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| OS | Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2 |
Nothing too fancy here, but it is no slouch either: an Athlon 64 FX-62 CPU and 2 GB of DDR2-800 RAM with a CAS latency of 4. Not too shabby, indeed.
What are our expectations? Well, frankly we'd be surprised if any board pulls ahead at any particular task. With the memory controller on the Athlon 64 die, performance shouldn't deviate that much at all. The only real wildcard in the suite is the single Radeon Xpress 3200 chipset, and we'll be surprised if any leads by any particular board falls outside the margin of error.
Benchmarks And Software
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| 3D-Games | |
| F.E.A.R | Version: 1.0 Retail
Video Mode: 1024x768 Computer: High Graphics Card: medium Options/Performance/Test settings |
| Quake 4 | Version: 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch)
Video Mode: 1024x768 Video Quality: default THG Timedemo waste.map timedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures) |
| Video | |
| TMPEG 3.0 Express | Version: 3.0.4.24 (no Audio)
182 MB VOB MPEG2-source (704x576) 16:9 |
| DivX 6.25 | Version: 6.25 (4 Logical CPUs)
Certification Profile: High Definition Profile Multipass, 3000 kb/s Encoding mode: Insane Quality |
| XviD 1.2.0 | Version: 1.2.0 SMP Beta
Encoding type: Twopass - Single pass Profile @ Level: DXN HT PAL Target size (kB): 570000 |
| Audio | |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.97 Beta 2 (11-29-2005)
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min wave to mp3 160 kbps |
| OGG | Version 1.1.2 (Intel P4 MOD)
Version 1.1.2 (Intel AMD MOD) Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min wave to ogg Quality: 5 |
| Applications | |
| Winrar | Version 3.60 BETA 4 (Dual-Core)
(303 MB, 47 Files, 2 Folders) Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB |
| Autodesk 3D Studio Max | Version: 8.0
Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig" rendering HTDV 1920x1080 |
| Adobe Photoshop CS 2 | Version: 9.0.1
VT-Runtime Script Rendering from 5 Pictures (66 MB, 7 Filters) |
| Synthetic | |
| PCMark05 Pro | Version: 1.1.0
CPU and Memory Tests Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3646 Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980 |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2007 | Version 2007.5.10.98
CPU Test = CPU Arithmetic / MultiMedia Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark Memory Latency Test = ns |
| Other | |
| Windows Media Player 10 | Version: 10.00.00.36.46 |
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