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After long consideration, I decided not to use our standard AGP platform for this review. There's two problems with using the same platform, games have progressed a long way since 2004, and the rest of the hardware is a bit outdated as well. The next question to arise was what hardware should I use? I decided to use the same FX-57 CPU and other components as our video card platform. The motherboard is a GIGABYTE Socket 939 AGP board. I also decided to use the same tests: F.E.A.R., Doom 3, HL2, COD2, Quake4, 3DMark06, 3DMark05, 3DMark03.
Test System
- AMD FX-57 CPU
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR memory
- 2 240GB WD SATA HDDs using RAID 0
- XFX 7800GS AGP Extreme Edition video card running 81.98 Forceware dated 2/7/06 for 7800GS
- ASUS 16x DVD-ROM
- Windows XP with SP2
- DirectX 9.0c
Test Software
- F.E.A.R. 32-bit max settings 1024x768, 1280x960, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Far Cry 32-bit max settings 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Doom 3 32-bit max settings 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Call of Duty 2 32-bit max settings 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Quake 4 32-bit max settings 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- 3dmark06 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
- 3DMark05 Default
- 3DMark03 Default
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