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There are 9 parts to this review, please use the pulldown below to browse sections or simply hit "Next" at the bottom of each section to continue
Final Impressions
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In my day-to-day operation of the rig I did notice that the time toprograms, games, images and so on had decreased. Installation of Microsoft Office went faster than I have ever seen it. The increases in performance, due to the IDE Raid, while editing images, creating huge zip files and the general performance of Photoshop was quite noticeable.
The GA-7DPXDW ran completely stable during its evaluation. Running Folding@Home twenty-four seven, image editing, and handling hours of Unreal Tournament with Mini-Bite at the controls the GA-7DPXDW has found itself a home. Due to my uncontrollable curiosity I will also be looking into why the platform failed the Business Winstone benchmark and I will also be testing the overclocking feature of this platform. Both of these items will be addressed in a follow up article with graphs and all necessary information.
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XP:nForce2,VIA KT600
Opteron: nForce3, AMD8000
64: nForce3, AMD8000, K8T
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Intel Motherboards
Latest Chipset: 875P
w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
ATI: 9100 IGP
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