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How We Test

Real-world benchmarks. Real-world results

71HOLIDAY 2005 MAXIMUMPC

BEST OF THE BEST

High-end videocard:

Asus GeForce N7800

GTX Top

Mid-range videocard:

GeForce 6800GT

Soundcard:

Creative Labs X-Fi Extreme

Music

7,200rpm SATA:

Hitachi Deskstar 7K500

External backup drive:

Western Digital Dual-Option

Media Center 250GB

Portable USB drive:

Seagate Portable External Hard

Drive 100GB

DVD burner:

Plextor PX-716A

Widescreen LCD

monitor:

Dell 2405FPW

Desktop LCD

monitor:

Dell 2001FP

Socket 939 Athlon

64 mobo:

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe

Socket 775 Pentium 4 mobo:

Asus P5ND2-SLI

Portable MP3 player:

Apple iPod 60GB

Photo printer:

Canon i9900

5.1 speakers:

Logitech Z-5500 Digital

2.1 speakers:

Klipsch GMX A2.1

Mid-tower case:

Cooler Master Praetorian 730

Full-size case:

Lian Li PCV-1100

With its newfangled reverse ATX

design and super-quiet opera-

tion, the PCV-1100 rolled right

into our hearts

Games we are playing:

Black & White 2, Quake 4

Dungeon Siege II, Battlefield 2

Our monthly category-by-category

list of our favorite products. New

products are in red.

omputer performance used to be mea-

sured with synthetic tests that had little or

no bearing on real-world performance. Even

worse, when hardware vendors started tailor-

ing their drivers for these synthetic tests, the

performance in actual games and applications

sometimes dropped.

At Maximum PC, our mantra for testing has

always been “real-world.” We use tests that

reﬂ ect tasks power users perform every single

day. With that in mind, here are the six real-

world benchmarks that we use to test every

system we review.

SYSmark2004: This is the most compre-

hensive application benchmark available, using

no fewer than 19 applications to measure the

time it takes for the PC to complete to real-world

computer-intensive tasks. Our SYSmark score is

a composite based on the time the test takes to

complete several different types of tasks.

Adobe Premiere Pro: The leading non-

linear digital-video editor has recently been

retooled with more support for multi-threading.

We take a raw AVI ﬁ le, add several transi-

tions and a soundtrack, export it to a generic

MPEG-2 ﬁ le, and then report the time the

script takes to complete.

Adobe Photoshop CS: We don’t subscribe

to Apple’s half-baked idea that running one ﬁ lter

test in Photoshop, in one certain way, at a partic-

ular time of day provides an accurate measure of

performance. Instead, we take a high-resolution

image and throw it through just about every ﬁ lter

available in Photoshop CS at it. Our score is the

time it takes for the script to complete.

Divx Encode: Video encoding is today’s

time-suck. We transcode a short movie stored

on the hard drive from MPEG-2 to Divx using

#1 DVD Ripper. We report the length of time the

process takes to complete.

3DMark05: After ranting about real-world

tests, you might be surprised to ﬁ nd this “syn-

thetic” graphics test in our suite. 3DMark05,

however, has proved to be the standard by

which graphics cards and PCs that run them

are judged. Instead of reporting a meaning-

less composite score, we run the third test at

1280x1024 with 4x antialiasing and 4x aniso-

tropic ﬁ ltering, then report the frame rate. Our

zero-point system with SLI can’t even break 30

frames per second.

Doom 3: Id’s hugely popular game is a dark,

scary, and serious test of PC horsepower.

We run this game with 4x antialiasing and 4x

anisotropic ﬁ ltering, at 1600x1200 resolution,

and report the frame rate.

BENCHMARKS

SYSmark2004 201

ZERO POINT SCORES

Premiere Pro

620

sec

Photoshop CS 286 sec

Divx Encode 1812 sec

3DMark 05 29.3 fps

Doom 3 77.1 fps

0 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

How to Read Our Benchmark Chart

Maximum PC’s test beds double as zero-point systems, against which all review systems

are compared. Here’s how to read our benchmark chart.

Our zero-point reference systems uses a 2.6GHz Athlon 64 FX-55, 2GB of DDR400 Crucial Ballistix RAM,

two nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra cards in SLI, a Maxtor 250GB DiamondMax10, a Sound Blaster Audigy 2

ZS, a PC Power and Cooling TurboCool 510 Deluxe Express, and Windows XP Pro with SP2.

The scores achieved by our zero-point system are noted

in this column. They remain the same, month in, month

out, until we decide to update our zero-point

The actual

scores achieved

by the system

being reviewed.

The bar graph indicates how much faster

the review system performed in respect

to the zero-point system. If a system

exceeds the zero-point performance by

more than 100 percent, the graph will

show a full-width bar and a plus sign.

The names

of the actual

benchmarks

used.

Every month we remind readers of our

key zero-point components.

60%

ZS, a PC Power and Cooling TurboCool 510 Deluxe Express, and Windows XP Pro with SP2.

50%

60%

216

494

sec

362 sec (-20.99%)

1635 sec

82 fps

62.3 fps +

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