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Windows XP was installed fresh on both systems (GHOST is a lovely tool) for the purposes of this review, the NVIDIA 28.80 Detonators installed and then the test software installed and run and the results collected.
As always, benchmarks were run 3 times and the middle of the 3 runs taken as the result. If any of the recorded results deviated by more than 5% up or down, the 3 results were discarded and run again until 3 consistent results were obtained. In the case of the OcUK SETI Benchmark, due to the time it takes and the need to leave the machine alone while running it for a fair result, it was only run once on each platform.
For the LAME MP3 encoding tests, CDex, a popular CD audio extraction tool, was used to extract Fat Boy Slim's album, Half Way Between The Gutter And The Stars into .WAV format. 11 resulting WAV tracks totalling some 689MB were encoded using the following LAME parameters from RazorLame 1.1.5: -b 320 -m j -h. That resulted in 320kb/sec CBR (constant bit rate) encodings into MP3 format and RazorLame was used to provide visual confirmation of the time taken to do the full encode. Here's a quick shot of RazorLame before the encode process.
The rest of the software should be fairly familiar to you but feel free to drop me a line at ryszard@hexus.net with any questions.
Onto the benchmark results!
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