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    Benchmarks – Synthetic

    Time for the benchmarks happy smile
    The system as it was tested
    DFI UT 790FX M2R AMD 7 Series Chipset
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition 1MB L2 cache
    CoolerMaster Hyper 212
    2x Patriot PC8500 DDR2 1066 (5-5-5-9) 1gig
    XFX GeForce 7900GT PCI Express
    Western Digital Raptor 36gig SerialATA 10000RPM
    Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
    12x/40x DVD/CDRom
    Windows XP Professional
    Reference System(s)
    #2
    DFI UT P35 T2R Intel P35 Chipset
    Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) 2MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
    Custom Watercooling
    2x Patriot PC8500 DDR2 1066 (5-5-5-9) 1gig
    Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
    Western Digital Raptor 36gig SerialATA 10000RPM
    Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
    12x/40x DVD/CDRom
    Windows XP Professional

    #3
    Foxconn N570SM2AA nForce 570 SLI Chipset
    Athlon64 3500+ 512K L2 Cache 940pin AM2
    OEM Heatsink
    2x Corsair Twin2X 5400C4PRO DDR667 (4-4-4-12) 512megs
    2x Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express (SLI)
    IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
    Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
    12x/40x DVD/CDRom
    Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
    CPU-Z
    SiSoft Sandra
    Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed; these were recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2007.9.10.105
    Cachemem
    Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
    Synthetic Conclusion
    Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story but is a good benchmark of what the system "could" do under the right conditions. This isn't an apples to apples comparison but does help to illustrate the differences between the various processor architectures.