Valve has recently updated their Steam Engine to invalidate all of the old timedemos in HL2. This is the second time they have changed the scripts, forcing me to change the benchmark we use, making the new benchmarks incomparable with my old reviews. Otherwise, our test platform is the same as we’ve used for all video card reviews of the last year.

Test System
3.4GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667MHz Memory
2 34GB WD Raptor 10000RPM SATA HDDs
ASUS 16x DVD-ROM
ABIT NI8-SLI motherboard
Therma take Purepower 560W PSU

Test Software
HL2 custom timedemo
Doom 3 Patch 1.3
Aquamark 3
Halo 1.07 Timedemo
Far Cry 1.32 Timedemo
3DMark05
3DMark03
SS:TSE
FFXI the Benchmark 2
Gunmetal Benchmark 2

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