System Setup and Benchmarks Used

Testing Setup

Our testing setup for this Asus Striker Extreme motherboard is the same as we used in our EVGA 680i motherboard.  For comparisons, we pit the Striker Extreme agains the EVGA nForce 680i SLI platform and the Asus P5W DH motherboard, based on the Intel 975X chipset.   

Asus Striker Extreme 680i Test System Setup

CPU

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.67 GHz – Review

Motherboards

Asus Striker Extreme 680i
EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard – Review
Asus P5W DH Deluxe 975X Motherboard – Review

Memory 

Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

Hard Drive

Western Digital Raptor 150 GB – Review

Sound Card

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value

Video Card

ATI X1900 XTX (650/775) – Review

Video Drivers

Catalyst 6.9

DirectX Version

DX 9.0c

Operating System

Windows XP Professional SP1

Benchmarks:

  • SiSoft Sandra 2007.SP1
  • Everest Ultimate Edition 2006
  • World Bench 5
  • Windows Media Encoder 9
  • DivX 6.1
  • LAME MT
  • CineBench 9.5
  • SPECviewperf 8.01
  • WinRAR 3.51
  • 3DMark06
  • FEAR 1.03
  • Call of Duty 2 1.01
  • PCMark05
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