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System Setup and Benchmark Software

Our test system consisted of the following hardware:

• DFI LanParty nF4 UT motherboard
• 2*512 MB OCZ PC5000 RAM @ 2.5-3-3-8-2T
• Anitec 500W power supply
• Western Digital 1200JD SATA hard drive
• 7800GTX video card

Disclaimer: The other results shown for comparison purposes are not directly comparable for gaming results as we have recently updated our primary test platform to nVidia 7800GTX running 81.98 Forceware from 6600GT running 66.93 drivers. The processor and memory bound tests are still directly comparable, and the business benchmarks are also largely comparable.

Software used during testing consisted of the following:

• Windows XP Service Pack 2
• NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98 drivers
• CineBench 2003
• LAME MP3 Encoding
• PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004
• PC Magazine Multimedia Content Creation 2004
• POV-Ray 3.7 beta4
• RightMark Memory Analyzer
• SiSoft Sandra
• TMPGEnc MPEG2 Encoding
• WinRAR
• Call of Duty
• Comanche 4
• Doom 3
• FarCry
• Halo
• Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• Unreal Tournament 2004

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