CPU:	Intel Pentium4 3.46GHz EE
Memory:	2 x 512MB OCZ DDR667 Memory Modules
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:	Intel Chipset 7.0
VGA Drivers:	nVidia Forceware 71.84

For comparison, we've chosen the AMD nForce4 SLI based Epox 9NPA+ SLI with the AMD Athlon64 3500+ CPU, the ASUS 925XE chipset based P5NDA2-E board and the recently reviewed MSI nForce4/P4 based P4N Diamond motherboard. We've compared all the boards in a non-SLI mode. The following applications were used for testing

CPI/Memory/HD:	PC Mark '04 CPU, Memory, Graphics and Hard Drive. Sandra 05 Memory Benchmarks
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
Audio/Video Encoding:	WorldBench: Jukebox, AutoGK with Pirates of Carribian DVD, WB: 3D Studio Max
General Applications:	WorldBench: Adobe Photoshop, Ahead Nero, Microsoft Office, Mozilla and Winzip
3D Workstation:	Cinibench 2003, WB: 3D Studio Max (OpenGL and Direct-X)

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