All the test were conducted using the following PC setup:

• Motherboard: Asus Stiker II Extreme Bios 1403 (Nvidia 790i Ultra SLI)
  
• Processor: Intel Q9300 (Quad Core @ 2.50GHz)
• Case: Open Air testbed
• Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream GXS600 SLI-Ready
• Memory: 2x1GB Supertalent DDR3-1600 (1333MHz@ 7-7-7-20-1T)
• HDD: Seagate 7200.12 500GB SATA2 7200RPM
• Monitor: LG L246WH-BH 24"
• Windows VISTA SP2 32bit with all the latest updates installed
• DirectX August 2009
• ATI Catalyst 9.12 with High Quality settings

Many games and applications were used for the evaluation of the performance of each graphics card. In addition we used the FRAPS software to measure the in-game performance when needed.

DirectX 9

• 3DMark 05 v1.3.0
• 3DMark 06 v1.1.0
• Half Life 2: Episode 2
• Crysis v1.2.0 Retail
• Crysis WarHead v1.00 Retail
• Far Cry 2 v1.02 retail

DirectX10

• 3DMark Vantage v1.0.1
• Company Of Heroes v1.7.1
• Crysis v1.2.1 Retail
• Crysis WarHead v1.00 retail
• Far Cry 2 v1.00 retail
• Left4Dead v1.00 retail
• Urinue Benchmark v1.00
• StreetFighter IV Benchmark v1.00
• Stalker: Call Of The Pripyat v1.00
• Dirt2 v1.00 retail