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We used the following hardware for testing of the 975X7AA:

• Intel Pentium D 840 processor (3.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, two cores)
• XFX GeForce 7800 GT video card
• Western Digital WD1200JD SATA hard drive
• 2*512MB Corsair PC8000UL memory @ 5-4-4-9/2T
• Antec TruePower TP2-500EPS12V power supply

Who else is going to be in the ring with the Foxconn 975X7AA?

• ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe (nForce 4 for Intel, DDR2-800 @ 5-4-4-9/2T)
• ASUS P5WD2 Premium (i955X, DDR2-800 @ 5-4-4-9/2T)
• ECS PF22 Extreme (i955X CrossFire, DDR2-667 @ 5-4-4-10/2T)

Can the 975X7AA can hold its own against these other powerhouse motherboards? We'll have to wait and see. A list of benchmarks performed looks as follows:

• Business Winstone
• Multimedia Content Creation 2004
• SiSoft Sandra Memory Analyzer
• WinRAR
• TMPGEnc MPEG2 Encoding
• XviD Video Encoding
• LAME MP3 Encoding
• Rightmark Audio Encoding
• Call of Duty
• Doom 3
• Comanche 4
• Halo
• Jedi Knight 2
• Unreal Tournament 2004

Drivers used were NVIDIA ForceWare version 81.98 and Intel Chipset Software version 7.2.2.1006. On to the testing!