Test system
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| Motherboard | MSI Eclipse SLI | |
| Processor | Intel Core i7-980X | |
| Memory | Corsair CMGTX2 3x2GB | |
| Graphics cards | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 XFX Radeon HD 5830 HIS Radeon HD 5850 HIS Radeon HD 5870 XFX Radeon HD 5870 XXX Edition |
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| Harddrive | OCZ Summit 60GB | |
| Operating system | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit | |
| Drivers | Forceware 197.17 Catalyst 10.3a |
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| Benchmarks | 3DMark 06 3DMark Vantage Crysis Warhead Dirt 2 Just Cause 2 MSI Kombustor STALKER: Call of Pripyat Unigine Heaven |
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Today’s test suite is a bit short since some games refused to work (for example our old favorite ARMA2), but a good mix of DirectX 10 and 11 games were at our disposal, throw an eye on Dirt 2 and Just Cause 2, since these two use high levels of tessellation, and have been designed together with AMD and NVIDIA respectively. For temperature tests we used the Furmark derivative MSI Kombustor, mainly because it is built into later versions of MSI Afterburner, that is a very competent overclocking tool. We should say that we couldn’t get the overclocking to work with Afterburner, but had to use EVGA Precision. Next page has more information on that.
