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Review: AMD and DDR2: The AM2 Athlon
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Test System Setup
AMD Socket AM2
- AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (2.8 GHz dual
core)
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6 GHz
dual core)
- ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe (nForce 590
chipset)
- 2 GB (4 x 512MB) of Corsair DDR2/800
XMS2 Pro (4-4-4-12) memory
AMD Socket 939
- AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 (2.6 GHz dual
core)
- ASUS A8R-MVP motherboard (R480
chipset)
- 2 GB (4 x 512MB) of Corsair DDR400
(2.5-3-3-6) memory
Intel System
- Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 955 (3.46
GHz dual core)
- Intel D975XBX motherboard (975X
chipset)
- 2 GB (4 x 512MB) of Corsair DDR2/800
XMS2 Pro (4-4-4-12) memory
All three test setups shared the following
system components.
- ATI Radeon X1900 XTX (Catalyst
6.4)
- Maxtor MaxLine III 250 GB SATA
(16 MB buffer) hard drive
- Plextor PX-712S DVD drive
- Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi sound
card
- Enermax 550 Watt ATX power supply
unit
The three test systems were built
using the newest BIOS release and chipset and add-in component
drivers. Anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, and vsync were
forced off in the graphics control panel during all game testing.
Windows XP Professional (SP2) was loaded and configured to
have automatic updates, system restore, and all unnecessary
startup services disabled. And unless otherwise noted the
licensed version of Fraps 2.7.3 was used to record performance
scores. Testing was conducted using the following software:
- PCMark05
(v1.1.0)
- Microsoft's
Windows Media Encoder
- Falcon
4: Allied Force (v1.0.6)
- IL-2:
Pacific Fighters (v4.0.4)
- MS
Flight Simulator 2004 (v9.1)
- Splinter
Cell: Chaos Theory (v1.05)
- Call
of Duty 2 (v1.02)
In recent dual-core articles SimHQ
has scaled back somewhat by not testing our entire benchmark
suite, yet for this article we decided to include a few more
titles to see how they fare with the additional system bandwidth
the AM2 systems offer.
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