TweakTown Test System Setup

Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz (333MHz x 9)

Motherboard(s): GIGABYTE X48-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)

Memory: 2 X 1GB Kingston PC6400 DDR-2 3-3-3-10 (KHX6400D2ULK2/2G) (Supplied by Kingston)

Hard Disk(s): Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA-2 7200.10 (Supplied by Seagate)

Graphics Card(s): Diamond HD 4870 XOC Black Edition

Smooth Creations Asylum Test System Setup

Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 @ 3GHz

Motherboard(s): Foxconn P45-A

Memory: 2 X 2GB G.Skill MQ 6-6-6-18

Hard Disk(s): Western Digital Raptor 150GB

Graphics Card(s): Diamond HD 4870 XOC Black Edition

Smooth Creations Smoothbook DR Test System Setup

Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Memory: 2 X 2GB Crucial So Dim 800MHz

Hard Disk(s): 2x 64GB G.Skill SSD in Raid 0

Graphics Card(s): 2x 8800M GTX

Operating System: Windows Vista SP1

Drivers: Catalyst 8.9 / ForceWare 175.32

The Smooth Creations notebook wasn't going to get off lightly today with it being placed against two very impressive setups, the first is our current testbed, the other the very impressive Smooth Creations Asylum PC. Both systems back a HD 4870 and an impressive lineup of specifications.

3DMark06

Version and / or Patch Used: Build 110

Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com

Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/products/3dmark06/

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3DMark06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests.

3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

Across the resolution board we can see that our testbed and the Smoothbook DR sit very close to each other. Both manage to take the lead at one point or another.