System Setup and Testing Methods

The test setup for the AMD 690 benchmarking starts a big shift for us at PC Perspective: we moved from Windows XP to Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit for our testing environment.  While not EVERYTHING is ironed out yet, I felt that more and more users will be adopting the new OS and thus our testing should be as future-proof as possible.

AMD 690 Chipset Test System Setup

CPU

AMD Athlon X2 5200+

Motherboards

MSI K9AGM2 RS690 Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2 GeForce 6100 Motherboard

Memory 

Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

Hard Drive

Western Digital Raptor 150 GB – Review

Sound Card

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value

Video Card

NVIDIA 7600 GT
Integrated Video Where Indicated

Video Drivers

100.65

DirectX Version

DX 9.0c

Operating System

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Benchmarks:

  • SiSoft Sandra XI
  • Windows Media Encoder 9
  • DivX 6.5.1
  • LAME MT
  • WinRAR 3.72
  • 3DMark06
  • Call of Duty 2 1.01
  • PCMark05
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