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Benchmark Setup

Our benchmark system consisted of the following:

• AMD Athlon 64 3000+
• 2x512 MB OCZ PC4200 RAM
• Western Digital WD1200JD SATA hard drive
• NVIDIA Reference 6600 GT 128 MB PCI-Express
• DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D
• Soltek K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890)
• Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard (nForce4 SLI)
• OCZ Modstream 520W PSU

NVIDIA's Forceware 66.93 was used for the 6600GT across all platforms. DFI's Board was tested with the ForceWare 6.37 drivers. VIA's Hyperion 4.55vp1 and the driver revisions for the nForce 4 SLI board can be found here.

A list of benchmarks performed follows:

• PCMag Winstone 2004
• HDTach
• NTTCP
• LAME MP3
• Rightmark Audio
• SiSoft Sandra
• Comanche 4
• Doom 3
• Halo
• Half-Life 2
• Call of Duty
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• X2 Rolling Demo