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Test Setup We made the test systems as similar as we could, other than the memory - so it should give us some very interesting results! Hardware used for testing the motherboards: Intel Core 2 E6400 processor (Socket LGA775, 2.66 GHz, two cores) XFX GeForce 7800 GT video card BFG 8800GT OC video card Noctua NH-U 12 heatsink with two 12cm fans Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA2 drive Corsair HX620W Modular power supply Gigabyte X38-DQ6 Quad motherboard (X38 based) MSI P35 Platinum Combo motherboard (P35 based) Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi motherboard (X38 based) Asus X38 Formula Maximus motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard (P35 based) 2 * 1024 MB Corsair PC2-8888 memory @ 4-4-4-10/2T (for DDR2 motherboards) 2 * 1024 MB OCZ PC3-10666 memory @ 7-7-7-20/2T (for the Combo motherboard) 2 * 1024 MB OCZ PC3-14400 memory @ 4-4-4-10/2T (for DDR3 motherboards)
We made the test systems as similar as we could, other than the memory - so it should give us some very interesting results!
Hardware used for testing the motherboards:
Benchmarks Used Here is a listing of all the tests we performed: PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004 PC Magazine Multimedia Content Creation 2004 RightMark Memory Analyzer SiSoft Sandra 2007 CPU, MMX, Memory Benchmarks HDTach WinRAR TMPGEnc MPEG2 Encoding XviD Video Encoding LAME MP3 Encoding Call of Duty Doom 3 Quake 4 Comanche 4 Halo Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Unreal Tournament 2004 NVIDIA's ForceWare 169.12 video drivers were used.
Benchmarks Used
Here is a listing of all the tests we performed:
NVIDIA's ForceWare 169.12 video drivers were used.