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To show the benefits of SLI, I decided to go off the tangent of using 1024x768 as the only resolution in benchmarking. Gigabyte provided us with a brand-new GA-8N-SLI Royal motherboard based upon NVIDIA's nForce4 for Intel chipset. I also took the liberty of benchmarking Far Cry for purposes of the review, using Benchemall.
Test System
- 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
- 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667MHz memory
- 2 36GB WD Raptor SATA hard disk drives 10K RPM 9.3ms seek time
- 6600GT running 71.89 Forceware drivers
- 2x 6600GTs running 71.89 Forceware drivers
- Gigabyte GA-8N SLI nForce4 for Intel SLI motherboard
Test Software
- Final Fantasy XI The benchmark 2
- Halo
- Half Life 2 Anandtech Canal and Coast timedemos
- Far Cry
- 3dmark 2005
- 3dmark 2003
- Aquamark 3
- Doom 3 Timedemo 1
- Serious Sam The Second Encounter Little Trouble demo
- Gunmetal Benchmark 2
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