Sapphire PURE 790GX

[grishkafool]

I noticed in the article that a nVidia 9800 GX2 was used for the test system. I am wondering how this article can be about a Dragon system if you aren't using an ATI 4xxx GPU? Although it is never specifically addressed as being about a Dragon system.. however, the previous artical which is referenced is about a Dragon platform and it too uses the Gigabyte 9800 GX2. If you are going to analyze a Dragon, shouldn't it BE a Dragon?

Test System
Processor: AMD Phenom II 810 AM3 (13x200MHz)
Memory: 2x 2GB DDR2-1200 Gskill PI (Supplied by GSkill)
Hard Disk: Intel X25-M 80GB SSD (Supplied by Intel)
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE 9800GX2 1GB (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Cooling: GIGABYTE 3D Galaxy II (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista X64 SP1
Drivers: ATI Catalyst 9.1, ForceWare 180.24

K10 Test System
Motherboard: MSI DKA790GX (Supplied by MSI)
Memory: 2x2GB Aeneon DDR2-1200 Xtune (Supplied by Aeneom)
Hard Disk: Intel X-25M 80GB SSD (Supplied by Intel)
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE 9800GX2 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Cooling: GIGABYTE 3D Galaxy II (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista x64 SP1
Drivers: ATI Catalyst 8.12, NVIDIA ForceWare 180.24

[grishkafool]

Re: Sapphire PURE 790GX

crickets....?

[chrisram]

Re: Sapphire PURE 790GX

In order to get apples to apples test results a single video card must be used to test test all of the products for a catagory for a certain amount of time. If say, a 4870X2 card was used for testing one and the 9800X2 was used to test the other the results wouldn't be controlled.

[grishkafool]

Re: Sapphire PURE 790GX

That's kind of beside the point, isn't it. I am saying that it can't be a Dragon Platform test if it isn't testing a Dragon Platform. Although, speaking of apples, it would be interesting to see a high-end Dragon tested...