System setup and notes
| Motherboard | abit IN9 32X-MAX | ECS PN2 SLI2+ (680i SLI) | EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI (680i LT) | Foxconn 975X7AB, ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe (975x)* | ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi | ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WiFi | |
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| CPU | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | ||||||
| BIOS revision | 11 | 691N1P19 | 721N0P01 | 635F1D08 (Foxconn) 1602 (ASUS) |
0201 | 0301 | |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC8500 EPP | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair TWIN3X2048-1066C7 | |||||
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | 7-7-7-21 2T @ 1066MHz (PC8528) | |||||
| Graphics card(s) | 2 x ASUS GeForce 7900GTX 512MB | HIS X1900 CROSSFIRE EDITION + Sapphire X1900XTX | |||||
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GB SATAII (ST3160812AS) | ||||||
| Motherboard software | NVIDIA Driver package 9.53 | Intel INF 8.0.1.1002 | Intel INF 8.300.1013 | ||||
| Graphics driver | Forceware 91.47 | CATALYST 6.8 | CATALYST
6.10 BETA (CATALYST 7.5 BETA for P35 CrossFire) | ||||
| Operating system | Windows XP Professional (SP2), 32-bit | ||||||
* Testing of the 975x platform was split between the Foxconn 975X7AB and the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe due to time-constraints. The board used for each test is shown on the related graph.
Tests
| 2D Benchmarks | ScienceMark Memory
Bandwidth ScienceMark Memory Latency HEXUS Pifast calculation to 10M places HEXUS WAV encoding HEXUS DivX encoding POV-Ray 32-bit 3.7.0 BETA 16 - using internal benchmark mode - biscuit.pov CINEBENCH 2003 v9.5 HD Tach RW v3.0.1.0 |
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| 3D Benchmarks | Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.30 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory v1.05 |
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Testing notes
With P35 boards, we used the CATALYST 6.10 drivers for consistency with previous tests. However, that meant that CrossFire couldn't be enabled. Because of this, our P35 CrossFire testing used the CATALYST 7.5 beta drivers provided for the Radeon HD2900 XT launch. Single-card testing, though, was carried out using V6.10.
