System Setup and Test Methods

Our test system setup for the Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard was the same as we have used in our single motherboard reviews here in the past, including the initial 925XE chipset launch.  You may notice that I did not include as many benchmarks this time around — I did so at the request of a few readers who mentioned to me that perhaps showing 14 different benchmarks that stress the same components and show the same results may be a bit over kill.  I welcome any and all comments, so if you have anything you’d like to see or not like to see, please let me know.

Intel Test System Setup

CPU

Intel 3.46EE

Motherboards

Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE
Intel 925XE Reference

Power Supply 

Antec 480 watt

Memory 

2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR2-533 @ 3-3-3-8

Hard Drive

250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA

Sound Card

Creative Labs Live!

Video Card

ATI X800 XT PCI Express

Video Drivers

ATI Catalyst 4.12

DirectX Version

DX 9.0c

Operating System

Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

 

AMD Test System Setup

CPU

Athlon 64 4000+

Motherboards

NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Reference

Power Supply 

Antec 480 watt

Memory 

2x512MB Kingston HyperX 4300 DDR @ 2-3-3-6

Hard Drive

250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA

Sound Card

Creative Labs Live!

Video Card

ATI X800 XT PCI Express

Video Drivers

ATI Catalyst 4.12

DirectX Version

DX 9.0c

Operating System

Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

 

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