Test system
AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
2Gb DDR 400Mhz (2,5-4-4-9)
Hitachi Deskstar HD (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
NEC DVD-RW ND-3520AW
Tagan TG420-U01 PSU
Philips 170S2 LCD

Applications/games used in the test:
F.E.A.R.
Half Life 2 – Ep1
Tomb Raider Legend
Oblivion
GRAW
PowerDVD 7

Driver used in the test:
nVidia ForceWare 92.91 available on nZone.com

For testing purposes the system was booted up with no unneeded services running. The file system used was NTFS and the drive was defragmented prior to all tests. Windows was fully updated (security updates) and the games/applications were running with both CPU cores enabled.

Good Benchmarking Practice:
Where possible, each benchmark was performed 3 times and the median result for each resolution/setting is shown in the tables that will follow. All games/applications had their latest patches applied.