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With the recent introduction of the AMD AM2 platform, it is likely we might move our video card test platform to the new CPU platform in the very near future. NVIDIA's new nForce 590 SLI series has optimizations for 7900 GTX cards and above when working in SLI and it should make a noticeable difference in performance with the new faster dual-core CPUs. The FX-57 CPU is the fastest available single core CPU and a good indicator of performance.
Test System
- AMD Athlon FX-57 CPU
- ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR400 memory
- 2 250GB WD SATA HDDs 7200 RPM 8.9ms seek
- GIGABYTE X1900XTX video card running Catalyst 6.5 with "Chuck patch"
- Windows XP with SP2
- DirectX 9.0C
Test Software
- F.E.A.R. 1024x768, 1280x960, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Quake4 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Doom3 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- COD2 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- Far Cry 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF
- 3DMark06 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
- 3DMark05 Default Settings
- 3DMark03 Default Settings
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