We have moved to Windows 7 for all testing of motherboards and video cards. It will be a long haul to re-do all tests but worth it in the long run as having a unified test OS is better than having two of them. It has also given me the opportunity to rethink our test suite. After all, running a bunch of three year old DirectX 9 games is not very useful for determining performance in today’s games.
Test System
- Core i7 920 CPU running 2.66GHz standard
- Intel DX58SO motherboard running latest drivers and BIOS
- Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X running Catalyst 9.10
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs running in RAID 0 mode
- 3GB Kingston KHK1600 DDR3-1600MHz memory running at 1333MHz (Maximum memory supported by Core i7 920 CPU)
- LG 16X DVD-RW drive
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64
- Cooler Master Hyper N620 CPU Cooler
- Cooler Master Ultimate 1000W PSU
Tests
DirectX 9.0
- BattleForge DirectX 10.0/11 (only on ATI 58xx cards)
- HAWX DX 10.0/10.1 (on ATI cards)
- Batman Arkham Asylum DX 10
- Resident Evil 5 DX10
- 3DMark06
- 3DMark Vantage
