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As a consumer oriented website we try to base all our testing on things that will actually matter to you, eschewing theoretical memory bandwidth benchmarks and raw floating point calculation performance metrics for real world tasks. There are a couple of 'canned' benchmarks in the form of the 3D rendering tests, Cinebench and POV-Ray. However, these are industry standard benchmarks that we feel people value, as they can easily be downloaded and run by anyone.

Test Setup

Common System Components

AMD ATI Radeon 4870 X2 Graphics Card
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive
Pioneer BDC-S02BK Blu-ray Drive

Core i7 Test System

Intel DX58SO SmackOver Motherboard
2 x 1GB Qimonda IMSH1GU03A1F1C-10F PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM

Core 2 test System

Asus P5E3 Motherboard
2 x 1GB Qimonda IMSH1GU03A1F1C-10F PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM

AMD Phenom AM2+ Test System

Gigabyte MA-790GP-DS4H Motherboard
2 x 1GB Corsair Dominator CM2X1024-8500C5D DDR2 RAM

AMD Phenom II AM3 Test System

Asus M4A79T Deluxe Motherboard
2 x 1GB Qimonda IMSH1GU03A1F1C-10F PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM

We tested the new AM3 CPUs on both the AM3 and AM2+ systems to see what sort of difference the switch to DDR3 would make.

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