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 71.84

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 SLI based Epox 9NPA-SLI motherboard, the nForce4 Ultra based Abit Fatal1ty AN8, the K8T890 based Soltek K8T890 PRO motherboard and the Intel nForce4 based ASUS P5ND2-SLI motherboard with a 3.46GHz EE CPU. We've compared all the boards in a non-SLI mode. The following applications were used to test these boards.

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@