System Setup and Notes
Hardware
| System | NVIDIA GeForce 79xxs | ATI Radeon X1900 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |
| Motherboard | NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Reference | Intel i975X Bad Axe |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024MiB) Corsair PC2-6400 EPP | |
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | |
| Graphics card(s) | Foxconn FV-N79GM3D2-HP 512MiB (550/700) GeForce 7950 GT 512MiB (550/700) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 256MiB (450/660) |
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MiB (625/725) |
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GB 7200.9 SATA 3Gbps | |
| BIOS revision | 28/06/061305 | |
| Mainboard software | NVIDIA Platform Driver 6.70 | Intel Inf Update 8.0.1.1002 |
| Graphics driver | NVIDIA Forceware 91.47 (7950 GTs) NVIDIA Forceware 91.33 (7900 GT) |
CATALYST 6.8 |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit | |
Software
| 3D Benchmarks |
Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.04 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory |
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Notes
We nabbed another 7950 GT from labs as competition, adding 7900 GT to show you where the old perf level is for the price, and Radeon X1900 XT 512MiB for the natural ATI nemesis.The usual benchmarking bits apply too. We ran each benchmark a trio of times, discarding the outer results and reporting the middle one. If any of the three results looked erroneous, we threw all three away until we could collect three within a margin of statistical error. Any major attempts needed to get three reliable results we let you know about, of course. Apart from that, things are as noted on the graphs and in the graph commentary. Want to know more? Hit up the fantastic, awesome, entirely gorgeous HEXUS.community. You know it makes sense, etc, etc.
