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Gigabyte’s board is a DDR3 board, meaning that the older DDR2 platform is not being used in this review but the newer DDR3 platform. The board was tested with the fastest Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 which is the latest and greatest from Intel. The rest of the components are the same as are the tests on the board. As we move forward, it is likely time to change the video card in the near future and change out CPUBench as the test is targeted to the Athlon XP CPU timeframe.
Test System
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 CPU running at 3.2GHz
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000MHz memory running@ 1333MHz (EPP 2.0 memory with no XMP profiles default settings)
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 mode
- EVGA 8800GTS SSC 320MB video card running 175.16 Forceware
- Rosewill 950W PSU
- ASUS 16x DVD-ROM
- Windows Vista 32-bit Business with SP1 installed
Tests
- Sysmark 2007 Preview Patch 3
- 3DMark05/06/Vantage
- PCMark05/Vantage
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
- PiFast
- wPrime
- Sisoft Sandra X1 Processor benchmark
- Aquamark 3
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