Test Setup:
MSI K8N Neo
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1024 MB Kingston PC3200 DDR
Sapphire X800 Pro 256MB
Windows XP SP2
Test
Software:
Catalyst 8.XX
beta
PCMark04
Sisoft Sandra 2004
DH Photoshop 7 Benchmark
Counter Strike: Source Video Stress Test
Todays test system was an upgrade from my previous system
so all hardware other than the CPU/MB, Videocard, a nice
dual blue cold cathode and 2 Thermaltake blue led smart
case fans (compliments of my good friends @ ADPMods)
was from a previous life cycle. Once everything was installed
in my Thermaltake Xaser III case a fresh format of my 80GB
Western Digital hard drive was performed and Windows XP
SP2 was installed using my slipstreamed SP2 cd. Next on
the list was to install the Nforce chipset drivers. I used
the NVIDIA nForce 6.14 betas and the .net framework 1.1
with SP1. After rebooting I installed a recent beta set
of ATI drivers. The benchmarking tools were next to be installed
and the hard drive was then de-fragmented using Perfect
Disk 7.
Next:
System/BIOS
