The Need For Speed - The ATI Choice With The Power of Two

Before we head out and check up on the eagerly awaited SPEC Viewperf 10 results, lets have a brief look into how these results are obtained by using a few synthetic benchmark tests stretching the system I/O.

HD Tach 3.0.4.0

To double check that these hard drive results we ran PCMark 2005 to cross check and arrived with the following results

PCMark 2005 Advanced

When we introduced our title - THE NEED FOR SPEED, this says it all; though on a brief deviation lets look quickly over the page at the graphical output.

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - Build Pictures
Page 3 - Build Pictures Continued
Page 4 - Systems Set-Up and Benchmarks Used
Page 5 - HD Tach 3.0.4.0 and PCMark 2005 Advanced
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3
Page 7 - Intel DX58S0, i7 975 3.33GHz and SPECviewperf® 10.0 32-bit
Page 8 - Supermicro X8SAX i7 965 3.2GHz and SPECviewperf® 10.0 32-bit
Page 9 - Intel Shady Cove, Dual W5580 3.2GHz and SPECviewperf® 10.0 64-bit
Page 10 - Supermicro X8DAi Dual W5580 3.2GHz and SPECviewperf® 10.0 64-bit
Page 11 - Conclusions and Award