System setup and notes
Hardware
- ASUS AX800XT/2DT 256MB, PCIe, 500/1000
- ATI Radeon X800 PRO 256MB, 8x AGP, 475/890
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, PCIe, 350/1000
- Intel Pentium 4 550 3.4GHz Prescott CPU, LGA775
- Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Prescott CPU, S478
- DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2 Alderwood motherboard
- DFI LANPARTY 865PE Springdale motherboard with PAT-enabled BIOS
- 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair DDR2 Twin2X, 4-4-4-12 @ DDR533
- 1GByte (2x512MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000, 2-2-2-5 @ DDR400
- Samcheer 420w PSU
- Intel S478, LGA775 reference coolers
- WD 160JB 160GB hard drive (PATA)
- Dell P991 19" flat-faced CRT monitor
Software
- Windows XP Professional w/SP1
- NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77
- ATI CATALYST 4.8
- Intel 6.01.1006/5.02.1002 chipset drivers
- DirectX 9.0b Runtime
- 3DMark03 v340
- AquaMark3
- Unreal Tournament 2003 Retail (patched up to 2225 - HEXUS custom benchmark)
- Painkiller - HEXUS Custom benchmark
- Call Of Duty - HEXUS Custom benchmark
- Doom 3 - Timedemo 1 - Ultra quality
Notes
2 PCI Express graphics cards up against an established AGP variant. I've chosen to limit platform differences by benchmarking the three cards on systems with Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4GHz CPUs, albeit S478/i865Pe and LGA775/i925X, respectively. Further, benchmarks were conducted at 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. These resolutions were also re-run with 4X AntiAliasing and 8X Anisotropic Filtering applied.
No problems to report during installation. Only the non-functioning SmartDoctor application caused any problems.
