Test System

Asus Extreme N6800 GT 256mb
ATI Radeon X800XL 256mb

AMD Athlon64 4000+
ATI Bullhead – Radeon Xpress Motherboard
2x512mb of OCZ DDR400 2-2-2-5
Samsung 80gb 7200rpm SATA Drive with 8mb Cache
NEC ND2510A DVD recorder
AOC 19” CRT

Windows XP SP2
DirectX 9.0c
Catalyst 4.12 WHQL
Forceware 67.03, 75.90, 67.66 and 71.84

Fraps
Powerstrip
Colin McRae Rally 2005
The Project
Rome Total War
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Medal of Honour Pacific Assault
Need for Speed Underground 2
Tiger Woods 2005
Doom3
Chronicles of Riddick
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth

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

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