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Our benchmark systems remains unchanged from our GeForce 7900 GTX launch. Hardware used is the following:

• AMD Athlon 64 3700+ processor @ 2.7 GHz (300 MHz * 9)
• DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR motherboard
• 2*512 MB OCZ PC4800 Platinum Edition memory (2.5-4-4-8 1T, 300 MHz)
• Western Digital WD1200JD SATA hard drive
• Enermax EG565P-VE power supply

The video card configurations we used looked as follows:

• BFG GeForce 7900 GTX single (512 MB, 670 MHz core/820 MHz memory)
• BFG GeForce 7900 GTX SLI (512 MB, 670 MHz/820 MHz memory)
• EVGA GeForce 7900 GTX (512 MB, 690 MHz core/880 MHz memory)
• ATI Radeon X1900 XT (512 MB, 625 MHz core/725 MHz memory)

A list of benchmarks performed follows:

• 3DMark 2006 Feature Tests
• Call of Duty 2
• Doom 3
• Far Cry
• F.E.A.R.
• Half-Life 2
• Serious Sam 2 Demo
• Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Drivers used were ForceWare 84.17 for the NVIDIA cards, CATALYST 6.3 for the ATI card, and nForce4 AMD 6.70 for the nForce4. The operating system used was Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. The Classic theme was in use with minimal effects enabled, and unneeded system services were turned off so as to provide maximal system resources for the benchmarks.

So what kind of punch can we expect from a BFG GeForce 7900 GTX, in both SLI and non-SLI configurations? Graphs are coming up!