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Benchmark Setup

For this we review, we used the following testing platform:

• CPU: E6700 Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.67 GHZ (333 * 8) 
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 
• Memory: 2 gigabytes of Corsair XMS2-5400UL DDR2 RAM (2 * 1024MB @ 667MHz 4-4-4-12/2T) 
• Power Supply: OCZ 850W GXS
• Hard Drive: 250 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA, w/16 MB cache
• CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U 12

We decided on the following other cards to bench the XFX GeForce 8800 GT Alpha Dog XXX edition against, roughly arranged from the quickest, to the slowest:  an Asus EN8800 GTX, a NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB, an Asus HD 3870 T.O.P, an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, a PowerColor HD 3850 Xtreme PCS (512 MB), a XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition (320MB), and a MSI  RX 2600  XT Diamond Plus.