System Setup and Notes
Hardware
Motherboards
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI, nForce4 SLI, Socket 939. PCI-E 16x, DDR
ECS KN1 Extreme, nForce4 Ultra, Socket 939. PCI-E 16x, DDR
EQS A58XK9-ALF, Radeon Xpress 200P, Socket 939. PCI-E 16x, DDR
Processors
AMD Athlon64 4000+, Socket 939, 1MB L2
Graphics Cards
NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT, PCI-E 16x, 256MB
Memory
1Gb (2 x 512MB) Corsair DDR-I PC-3200 - 2-2-2-5
Hard Disks
1 x 36.6GB Western Digital Raptor SATA
Software
Windows XP Professional w/ SP2NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.31
ATI CATALYST IGP driver 4.12
NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
HEXUS Pifast
Sciencemark 2.0
KribiBench v1.1
LAME 3.92MMX encoding U2's Pop album at 192CBR
Realstorm Raytracing Benchmark
3DMark 2001SE
3DMark03
Painkiller
Notes
We'll be putting the GA-K8NXP-SLI up against two other motherboards in our benchmarking suite, in the form of EQS' Radeon Xpress 200P board, as well as an nForce4 Ultra part in the form of the ECS KN1 Extreme.