System Setup and Notes
Hardware
| System | MESH Elite Fire X1950 | MESH Elite Extreme SLI | HEXUS Intel D975XBX |
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| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.67GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |
| Motherboard | ASUS P5W DH Deluxe | ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe | Intel D975XBX Bad Axe rev. 304 |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) OCZ PC2-7200 | 2GiB (2 x 1024) OCZ PC2-6400 | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC2-8500 |
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-15 2T @ 890MHz (PC7200) | 4-4-4-15 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) |
| Graphics card(s) | 2 x ATI Radeon X1950 XTX | 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MiB | ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MiB |
| Disk drive(s) | 2 x Maxtor 6V300F0 300GB | Maxtor 6H500S0 500GB | Seagate 160GB 7200.9 SATA 3Gbps |
| BIOS revision | 1401 (08/31/2006) | 28/06/06 | 1304 (20/06/06) |
| Mainboard software | Intel Inf Update 8.1.1.1001 | NVIDIA Platform Driver 6.70 | Intel Inf Update 8.0.0.1009 |
| Graphics driver | CATALYST 6.8 | NVIDIA Forceware 91.33 | CATALYST 6.8 |
| Operating System | Windows XP Home, w/ SP2, 32-bit | Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005, 32-bit | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit |
Software
We ran the systems through our usual array of benchmarks.| 2D Benchmarks |
ScienceMark Memory Bandwidth ScienceMark Memory Latency HEXUS Pifast calculation to 10M places HEXUS Cryptography Realstorm Raytracing 2004 KribiBench v1.1 HEXUS WAV encoding HEXUS DivX encoding Cinebench 2003 v9.5 |
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| 3D Benchmarks |
Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.04 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory |
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Notes
The MESH Elite Fire X1950 system passed our stability tests without issue, passing burn-in tests with EIST on and off for 8+ hours each time, with CrossFire enabled no less. Our burn in tests had the CPU showing 49°C under load, with mainboard temperature measured at 55°C in a room with ambient air temperature of 21°C. Pretty toasty in there as you can see, but without stability problems. We compare to MESH's other high-end bad boy SKU, the Elite Extreme SLI, and also a HEXUS reference box containing a single X1900 XTX, 2GiB of memory and a Core 2 Extreme X6800.The usual bits apply here. We ran each benchmark a trio of times, discarding the outer results and reporting the middle one. If any of the three results looked erroneous, we threw all three away until we could collect three within a margin of statistical error. Any major attempts needed to get three reliable results we let you know about, of course. Apart from that, things are as noted on the graphs and in the graph commentary. Want to know more? Hit up the fantastic, awesome, entirely gorgeous HEXUS.community. You know it makes sense, etc, etc.
