Setup and notes
Hardware
| Graphics cards | OCZ GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB (575/1800) | ECS GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB (575/1800) | ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/640M 640MiB (513/1600) | ASUS GeForce 7950 GX2 1GiB (500/1200) | Sapphire Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB (650/2000) | |
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| CPU | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |||||
| Motherboard | ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS nForce 680i SLI | EVGA nForce 680i SLI | ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe (975X+ICH7R) | |||
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC8500 EPP | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Patriot XLBK | ||||
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | |||||
| PSU | CoolerMaster iGreen 600W | FSP Epsilon 600W | ||||
| Monitor | Dell 2405FPW - 1920x1200 | |||||
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GB SATAII (ST3160812AS) | |||||
| Mainboard software | NVIDIA platform driver 9.53 | Intel Inf 8.0.1.1002 | ||||
| Graphics driver | ForceWare 97.02 | ForceWare 93.71 | CATALYST 6.10 | |||
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit | |||||
Software
| 3D Benchmarks |
Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.30 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory v1.05 |
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Notes
We're comparing the two review GeForce 8800 GTXs against one another and to an 8800 GTS, 7950 GX2, and Radeon X1950 XTX from ASUS, ASUS and Sapphire, respectively.We've not included another GeForce 8800 GTX because performance - as you will see between the OCZ and ECS cards - is virtually identical. Adding a further card will not benefit performance analysis.
No problems to report during installation, stress-testing or overclocking. Let's move on to the graphs.
