CPU:	AMD Athlon64 3500+ (Winchester) CPU
Memory:	2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 Memory Module
VGA Card:	nVidia GeForce 6800GT
Optical/Hard Drives:	ASUS 52X CDRW, Western Digital 10,000RPM 36GB Raptor Serial-ATA
Monitor:	Relisys 19" Monitor
Operating System:	Windows XP Professional SP2
Motherboard Drivers:	nVidia nForce 6.31 (beta)
VGA Drivers:	nVidia Forceware 61.77

Our Corsair memory works very well at DDR400 speeds with SPD values of 2.0-2-2-5 which is what was used to benchmark all boards in this roundup. For comparison, we've chosen the nForce4 based MSI K8N Platinum and Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI (in a non-SLI mode).

SiSoft Sandra 2003:	Memory Bandwidth Benchmarks
PC Mark 04:	CPU, Memory, Graphics and Hard Drive,
Graphics Benchmarks:	3D Mark 2001SE, 3D MArk 2003, 3D Mark 2005 and Aquamark3- Default Settings.
Full Games:	Doom3, UT2004, Far Cry, Counter Strike: Source at 1024x768 resolution
Video Encoding:	AutoGK with Pirates of Carribian DVD
World Bench:	General Usage Applications
3D Workstation:	Cinibench 2003.

If you would like for us to add any additional benchmarking software, please email us at suggestions@