Test Setup

Shuttle SN95G
MSI K8N Diamond

Radeon X800Pro 256mb
AMD Athlon64 4000+
2x512mb Ultra DDR400 (2-2-2-5)
Samsung 80gb 8mb cache 7200rpm SATA HD
MSI 16x DVD Writer
Ultra 500w Xconnect PSU

Windows XP SP2
.Net framework 1.1 sp1
Catalyst/Xpress 5.1 WHQL
Nforce 6.41
PCMark04
Sisoft Sandra
Photoshop 7.0
ImtooDVD Decoder
Doom3
The Project

The test system was built from scratch, a format of the hard drive was performed (NTFS) and then Windows XP was installed. Following the completion of the install the ATI/Nforce drivers were installed. The only updates applied were SP2 and .net framework 1.1(latest service pack). Following a reboot the Video Card drivers were installed. Next the latest builds of the benchmarking tools were installed and finally the hard drive was de-fragmented. For all tests the ATI/Nvidia drivers were set to default quality/optimisations (unless otherwise stated)

Good Benchmarking Practice:
Where possible each benchmark was performed 3 times and the middle result for each resolution/setting is shown in the tables which follow. All games/applications had their latest patches applied.

 

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