AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Processor Competitive Performance Guide. [rev.E].[2006-01] Datasheet

AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60

Processor Competitive

Performance Guide

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About This Document

This document is intended for those who are interested in the performance of AMD64
technology, as demonstrated by the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60 processor. Performance is
evaluated by means of benchmark tests in the following categories.

Computer Gaming (page 7)

Digital Media (page 17)

Office Productivity (page 27)

Overall performance averages in each category are provided, as well as the results of
individual benchmarks in the category.

A comprehensive performance average is provided in Overall Performance (page 3)

All benchmark scores are normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The test
system configuration is also provided.

For a detailed description of the benchmarking methodology, including step-by-step
procedures for duplicating the tests, refer to AMD Processor Performance Evaluation
Guide, order# 30579.

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Overall Performance

Overall Performance

The AMD Athlon™ 64 processor is AMD’s most powerful processor for high-performance
desktop PCs. The processor provides leading-edge performance for demanding software
applications such as digital video, audio, imaging editing, and 3-D gaming, as well as
office applications.

The AMD Athlon 64 processor features AMD64 technology for the coming wave of 64-bit
applications.

This document shows how the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60 processor performs overall
relative to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

While there is no simple way to measure performance that covers every user
experience, AMD has compiled an overall average from averages of major benchmark
scores in the Computer Gaming, Digital Media, and Office Productivity categories.

The following sections list the benchmarks in each category.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Overall Performance

Computer Gaming (All Tests Performed at 1024x768x32 Resolution)

The high performance benefits will amaze computer gamers. The following benchmarks
focus on the exceptional gaming capabilities of a system:

3DMark™ 03 Pro (Hardware Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark Corporation

3DMark

3DMark

3DMark

03 Pro (Software Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark Corporation

2005 (Patch 120, D3D Hardware T&L by Futuremark

2005 (Patch 120, D3D Software T&L) by Futuremark

Crafty (Version 19.19)

Doom 3 (Version 1.3)

Far Cry (Version 1.3.3, Pier)

Half-Life 2 (Version 1.0.1.0, at_coast_05_rev7.dem)

Half-Life 2 (Version 1.0.1.0, at_prison_05_rev7.dem)

Painkiller (Version 1.64)

Quake IV (Version 1.04, Arena Demo)

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (Version 2.60)

Splinter Cell (Version 1.2b, test 1_1_1)

Splinter Cell (Version 1.2b, test 1_1_2)

Star Wars - Jedi Knights II: Jedi Outcast (Patched to 1.04)

Unreal Tournament 2004 (Version 3355, Demo BotMatch)

Unreal Tournament 2004 (Version 3355, Demo Flyby)

Corporation

Corporation

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Overall Performance

Digital Media

AMD64 processor-based systems take advantage of newly-designed system features to
deliver outstanding performance for digital creation and playback.

®

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone

BAPCO

®

SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation

Dr. DivX (Version 1.0.6)

POV-Ray (Version 3.7.10)

RazorLAME MP3 Encoder (Version 1.1.5.1342)

Panorama Factory (Version 3.3)

Sony Vegas Studio (Version 4.0)

Microsoft

®

Movie Maker (Version 5.1)

Apple iTunes (Version 6.0)

Content Creation Winstone is a registeredTrademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

2004 (Version 1.0.1)

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Office Productivity

The AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60 processor runs common office productivity applications
very efficiently. Work productivity may increase because you can perform more tasks
and spend less time waiting for applications to respond. The following benchmarks
simulate a workload likely to be seen in an office workplace environment.

®

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. — Business Winstone

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. — Business Winstone

BAPCO

®

SYSmark® 2004 Office Productivity (Version 1.0, Patch 2)

PC Worldbench (Version 5)

WinRAR (Version 3.51)

Remote Collaboration Scenario

Travel Ready Scenario

Business Winstone is a registeredTrademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

2004 (Version 1.01)

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2004 (Version 1.01, Multitasking Test)

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Computer Gaming

Computer Gaming Overall

With the innovative AMD64 architecture, an integrated DDR memory controller, and
large L1 and L2 caches, the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60 processor is the 'gamer's choice',
providing absolutely the best performance in today's computer games.

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Overall gaming performance is an average of data from the following computer gaming
benchmarks, normalized to the score to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor (all at
1024x768x32 resolution).

3DMark™ 03 Pro (Hardware Vertex
Shaders) by Futuremark Corporation

3DMark
Shaders) by Futuremark Corporation

3DMark
T&L by Futuremark
3DMark
T&L) by Futuremark
Crafty (Version 19.19)
Doom 3 (Version 1.3)
Far Cry (Version 1.3.3, Pier)
Half-Life 2 (Version 1.0.1.0,

at_coast_05_rev7.dem)

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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03 Pro (Software Vertex

2005 (Patch 120, D3D Hardware

2005 (Patch 120, D3D Software

Corporation

Corporation

Half-Life 2 (Version 1.0.1.0,
at_prison_05_rev7.dem)

Painkiller (Version 1.64)
Quake IV (Version 1.04, Arena Demo)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

(Version 2.60)
Splinter Cell (Version 1.2b, test 1_1_1)
Splinter Cell (Version 1.2b, test 1_1_2)
Star Wars - Jedi Knights II: Jedi Outcast

(Patched to 1.04)
Far Cry (Version 1.3.3, Pier)
Unreal Tournament 2004 (Version 3355, Demo

BotMatch)
Unreal Tournament 2004 (Version 3355, Demo

Flyby)

Computer Gaming

3DMark™ 2005 (Patch 120, D3D Hardware T&L
by Futuremark

Corporation

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

3DMark

™ 2005 (Patch 120, D3D Software T&L)

by Futuremark

Corporation

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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3DMark™ 03 Pro (Hardware Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark Corporation

Computer Gaming

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

3DMark

™ 03 Pro (Software Vertex Shaders)

by Futuremark Corporation

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Computer Gaming

Crafty (Version 19.19)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Doom 3 (Version 1.3)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Far Cry (Version 1.3.3, Pier)

Computer Gaming

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Half-Life 2 (Version 1.0.1.0, at_coast_05_rev7.dem)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Computer Gaming

Half-Life 2 (Version 1.0.1.0, at_prison_05_rev7.dem)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Painkiller (Version 1.64)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Quake IV (Version 1.04, Arena Demo)

Computer Gaming

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (Version 2.60)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Splinter Cell (Version 1.2b, test 1_1_1)

Computer Gaming

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Splinter Cell (Version 1.2b, test 1_1_2)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Computer Gaming

Star Wars - Jedi Knights II: Jedi Outcast (Patched to 1.04)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Unreal Tournament 2004 (Version 3355, Demo BotMatch)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Computer Gaming

Unreal Tournament 2004 (Version 3355, Demo Flyby)

3-D gaming may reveal limitations in the graphics solution and may not truly represent relative processor performance.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Digital Media

Digital Media Overall

With a revolutionary processor design and now including support for SSE3 as well as
3DNow!™ Professional technology and SSE2 instructions, the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60
processor provides outstanding performance for multimedia applications. Compose,
edit, and encode digital audio, video, and image files quickly and smoothly so you can
save time and produce outstanding work.

The digital media overall benchmark is an average of compiled data from the list of
benchmark scores from the following list of tests. The score is normalized to the
AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone® 2004 (Version 1.0.1)

BAPCO

Dr. DivX (Version 1.0.6)

POV-Ray (Version 3.7.10)

RazorLAME MP3 Encoder (Version 1.1.5.1342)

Panorama Factory (Version 3.3)

Sony Vegas Studio (Version 4.0)

Microsoft

Apple iTunes (Version 6.0)

Content Creation Winstone is a registeredTrademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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®

SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation

®

Movie Maker (Version 5.1)

Digital Media

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone

®

2004 (Version 1.0.1)

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone® is a system-level, application-based benchmark
that measures a PC's overall performance when running Windows
based multimedia content creation applications.

®

operating system-

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. Multimedia Content
Creation Winstone 2004 version 1.0 uses the following applications:

• Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1

• Adobe Premiere 6.50

• Macromedia Director MX 9.0

• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1

•Microsoft

• NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b

• Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f

®

Windows® Media Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a single, large test that runs the listed
applications through a series of scripted activities and returns a single score.

Content Creation Winstone is a registeredTrademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Digital Media

BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation

SYSmark® 2004 is an application-based benchmark.

This benchmark incorporates the following Internet Content Creation applications. The
score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

• Adobe® After Effects 5.5

• Adobe Photoshop 7.01

• Adobe Premiere 6.5

• Discrete 3ds max 5.1

• Network Associates McAfee VirusScan 7.0

• WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1

• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

• Macromedia Flash MX

•Windows

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Media Encoder 9 Series

Digital Media

Dr. DivX (Version 1.0.6)

Dr. DivX converts video to a MPEG-4-based format. The test is a measure of the time
required to convert a video file to MPEG-4 format.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Digital Media

POV-Ray (Version 3.7.10)

This benchmark uses POV-Ray to create photo-realistic3-D images using a rendering
technique called ray-tracing. The test is a measure of pixels per second generated while
creating a standard benchmark image.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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RazorLAME MP3 Encoder (Version 1.1.5.1342)

Digital Media

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. This benchmark is the
compiled data from the RazorLAME version 1.1.5 MP3 benchmark scores.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Digital Media

Panorama Factory (Version 3.3)

Panorama Factory is a digital photo-editing application that creates panoramic photos
and 360° photographs.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The benchmark is a
measure of the time required to stitch together a set of photos into a panorama.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Digital Media

Sony Vegas Studio (Version 4.0)

Sony Vegas Studio is a digital video-editing application that edits and converts video
files into different formats.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The benchmark is a
measure of the time required to convert video files into different formats.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Microsoft® Movie Maker (Version 5.1)

Microsoft® Movie maker creates movie files from still photos.

Digital Media

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The benchmark is a
measure of the time required to create video files from still photos.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Apple iTunes (Version 6.0)

Apple iTunes downloads, organizes, and plays digital music and video.

Digital Media

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The benchmark
measures the time it takes to convert an audio wave file to MP3 format using the default
iTunes MP3 encoder.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Office Productivity

Office Productivity Overall

The AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60 processor provides high levels of performance when
running office productivity applications in a multi-tasking environment. High-speed
HyperTransport™ technology and an integrated memory controller make the
AMD Athlon 64 processor an efficient platform for today's knowledge worker.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. This benchmark is an
average of compiled data from the list of benchmark scores from the following list of
tests.

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. — Business Winstone® 2004 (Version 1.01)

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. — Business Winstone

BAPCO

PC Worldbench (Version 5)

WinRAR (Version 3.51)

Remote Collaboration Scenario

Travel Ready Scenario

Business Winstone is a registered Trademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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®

SYSmark® 2004 Office Productivity (Version 1.0, Patch 2)

®

2004 (Version 1.01, Multitasking Test)

Office Productivity

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. — Business Winstone® 2004 (Version 1.01)

Business Winstone® is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures

®

overall PC performance when running today's top-selling Windows

operating system­based applications. Business Winstone does not mimic what these packages do; it runs
real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to
complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The Business
Winstone benchmark uses the following applications:

•Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6

• Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft Project 2002

• Microsoft Access 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft FrontPage 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft Word 2002 SP-2

• Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003

• WinZip 8.1 SR-1

Business Winstone is a registered Trademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Office Productivity

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. — Business Winstone® 2004 (Version

1.01, Multitasking Test)

The Business Winstone® Multitasking test uses the same applications as Business
Winstone, but runs some of the applications in the background while doing work in the
foreground. If you're the type of person who runs a virus check in the background while
using office applications in the foreground, you'll want to check out this test.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The Business
Winstone Multitasking benchmark uses the following applications:

•Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6

• Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft Project 2002

• Microsoft Access 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft FrontPage 2002 SP-2

• Microsoft Word 2002 SP-2

• Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003

• WinZip 8.1 SR-1

Business Winstone is a registered Trademark of Ziff Davis Media, Inc.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Office Productivity

BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Office Productivity (Version 1.0, Patch 2)

The BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 is an application-based benchmark.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. The BAPCO SYSmark
benchmark uses the following applications.

• Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0.5

•Microsoft

• Microsoft Excel 2002

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

• Microsoft Outlook 2002

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002

• Microsoft Word 2002

• Network Associates McAfee VirusScan 7.0

• ScanSoft Dragon Naturally Speaking 6 Preferred

• WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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®

Access 2002

Office Productivity

PC Worldbench (Version 5)

PC Worldbench is an office productivity benchmark developed by PC World magazine.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. PC Worldbench™ uses
the following applications:

• ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0

• Adobe

• Adobe Premiere 6.5

• Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3

• Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (DirectX)

• Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (OpenGL)

•Microsoft

• Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0

• Mozilla 1.4

• Musicmatch Jukebox 7.10

• Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5

• WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

®

Photoshop® 7.0.1

®

Office XP with SP-2

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Office Productivity

WinRAR (Version 3.51)

WinRAR is archive management software. WinRAR may be used to backup data and to
reduce the size of e-mail attachments, to decompress RAR, ZIP, and other files
downloaded from Internet, and to create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor. This benchmark is the
compiled data from the WinRAR benchmark scores.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Remote Collaboration Scenario

Office Productivity

The Remote Collaboration Scenario is a multi-application benchmark that combines

®

Microsoft

NetMeeting (Version 3.01) and Windows® Media Encoder (Version

9.00.00.2980).

This scenario launches Microsoft NetMeeting on two systems. The host system shares a
PowerPoint presentation on the target system while Microsoft Windows Media Encoder
converts an MPEG2 file to the Mpeg4 format.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Office Productivity

Travel Ready Scenario

The Travel Ready Scenario is a multi-application benchmark that combines Microsoft®
Publisher 2003 (Version 11.5525.5606) and Nero Recorder (Version 3.1.0.0). During
the benchmark, Microsoft Publisher runs with a scripted input to create a newsletter
while Nero Recorder runs to convert an MPEG2 file to the Nero MPEG4 format.

The score is normalized to the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor.

Refer to Table 1 on page 35 for benchmark system configuration.

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Benchmark System Configuration

Table 1 shows the system configuration that AMD used to perform the benchmarks
described in this document.

Table 1. AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Test System Configuration

Component Manufacturer and Model Description

®

Operating System

Processor

Microsoft

RTM, Service Pack 1a installed, Build 2600, DirectX 9.0C

AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor

Windows® XP Professional

Hardware

Drivers

Motherboard

Chipset

RAM

Hard Drive

Video Card

Audio

LAN

SATA

Video

Audio

LAN

Asus A8N32SLI-Deluxe, BIOS MCT2/Dual Core

NVIDIA nForce SLI X16

1 GB DDR SDRAM total

(qty (2) 512 MB DIMM Module CMX512-3500XLPro)

Qty (2) Western Digital Raptor WD360GD, 36.0 GB, SATA RAID 0

10,000 RPM (NTFS used to format the hard disk).

Drives are configured in a RAID 0 configuration.

NVIDIA 7800 GTX, 512 MB DDR3

NVIDIA nForce Audio (integrated on motherboard)

Marvel Yukon 88E8053 PCI Express™ Gigabit

(integrated on motherboard)

NVIDIA nForce ATA RAID Class Controller,

v5.10.2600.5552, 1/20/2005

NVIDIA, v8.1.9.4, 11/04/2005, 1024x768, 85 Hz refresh rate

NVIDIA, v6.14.462.0, 1/26/2005

Marvell, v8.27.43, 05/06/2005

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