System Setup and Notes
Hardware
MotherboardsGigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard, nForce4 SLI, Socket 939
Processor
Athlon64 4000+, Socket 939
Graphics Cards
Gigabyte 3D1, PCI-E 16x, 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, PCI-E 16x, 128MB
NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT, PCI-E 16x, 256MB
Memory
1GB (2 x 512MB) Corsair DDR-I PC-3200 - 2-2-2-6
Hard Disks
1 x 36.6GB Western Digital Raptor SATA
Software
Windows XP Professional w/ SP2NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.31
NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
Xpand Rally Demo - HEXUS Custom Benchmark
Unreal Tournament 2004 Retail (patched up to 3323 - HEXUS custom timedemo)
Sims 2 - HEXUS Custom Benchmark
DOOM 3 - Custom Timedemo - High quality
Far Cry (patched to v1.3) - Custom Timedemo
Half-Life 2 - HEXUS Custom Timedemo
Notes
To see how the performance of the 3D1 stacks up, we'll set it up against first a single NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, and then also a single GeForce 6800GT. All three cards will run the gauntlet in our usual set of benchmarks, at three resolutions - 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200, running firstly without anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, then with 4x AA and 8x AF.
