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Benchmark Setup

AMD Athlon 3400+
Soltek K8AN2E-GR (NForce 3 250Gb)
OCZ 2x256 (DDR3200)
WD1200 120 GB IDE HD
Windows XP SP1
Directx 9c
ATI 9800XT CATALYST 4.12 Beta (Catalyst AI Enabled)
NVIDIA GeForce 5950*
NVIDIA 6600GT AGP (ForceWare 66.93)
5.10 nForce Platform Driver

Benchmarks-

HL2 Video Stress Test
Aquamark 3
Splinter Cell (tbilisi 1_1_1, 1_1_2)
Halo
X2 Rolling Demo
Call of Duty (brecourt)
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Academy (rift sanctuary, taspir)
Unreal Tournament 2k4 (dm_metallurgy)
Far Cry (River Level)
DOOM 3 / Counter Strike: Source

Due to time contraints the entire benchmark suite for the 5950 was not run in its entirety. Counter Strike Source, DOOM 3 are among those tests that were run with the 66.93 drivers while the remainder of the tests were run with the 61.31s. Aquamark was run using both sets of drivers and differences in the benchmark scores were negligible so we do not antipate any large deviation with the 5950 on the 66.93 drivers.