I decided to test the system NVIDIA sent with the standard 3.4GHz Extreme Edition that I use in all of my Motherboards.org reviews. This allows me to give a sense of performance with the motherboards that I've reviewed in the past. I will be comparing the NVIDIA reference board to a Foxconn 925XE motherboard. This is the target motherboard for NVIDIA's new chipset along with the 955 chipset Intel recently released for Dual Core CPUs.

Test System
Asus 16X DVD-ROM
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition
1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667MHz
1GB Corsair XMS DDR2 memory
1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 memory
2 NVIDIA reference 6800GTs running 71.89 Forceware drivers
Onboard Audio
2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs 10,000RPM, 9.3ms seek times
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
DirectX 9.0c

Test Software
Doom3 Timedemo 1
HL2 Anandtech C17 timedemo
Sysmark 2004
PCMark 2004
PCMark 2004 Memory Test
Sisoft Sandra 2005 Memory Test
Aquamark 3
3dmark 2005
3dmark 2003