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Test Report: First Vista Desktop PC Benchmarks

Quad-core PCs running Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700 CPU did better on our WorldBench 6 (beta) suite than dual-core systems, and Gateway's FX530XT led the pack, excelling on all of our productivity tests. But as our gaming trials show, not all units had fully baked graphics drivers at the time of testing. Click on the icon below to see the full chart.

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Vista PC	Price	CPU	Graphics	RAM (MB)	WorldBench 6 (beta) score 1	Productivity tests (seconds) 2				Gaming tests (fps) 3
Vista PC	Price	CPU	Graphics	RAM (MB)	WorldBench 6 (beta) score 1	Multitasking: Firefox and Windows Media Encoder	Adobe Photoshop CS2	Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 (rendering)	Microsoft Office 2003 (seconds)	Far Cry	Doom 3
CyberPower Gamer Infinity 7500	$999	2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo E6600	EVGA GeForce 7900GS	1024	108	265	449	671	353	112	124
Dell Dimension C521	$979	2.4-GHz Athlon 64 X2 4600+	ATI Radeon X1300	2048	91	359	597	774	395	81	n/a 4
Dell XPS 410	$1954	2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo E6600	GeForce 7900 GS	2048	118	291	387	672	362	109	111
Dell XPS 710	$4224	2.66-GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6700	GeForce 7950 GX2	2048	129	258	360	348	342	108	120
Gateway FX530XT	$4500	2.66-GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6700 5	ATI Radeon X1950 XTX (Crossfire)	4096	148	211	295	292	325	159	n/a 4
Shuttle G2-3200	$1860	2.13-GHz Core 2 Duo E6400	ATI Radeon X1300	2048	100	325	495	755	370	62	n/a 4
Chart Notes: All systems ran Windows Vista Home Premium edition. Best scores are in bold. Footnotes: 1 Results are not comparable with WorldBench 5 scores. 2 For timed tests, lower numbers are better. 3 Tests performed at 1024 by 768 resolution with antialiasing turned off; higher rates of frames per second (fps) are better. 4 n/a = not applicable. Systems with ATI-based graphics were unable to complete this test. 5 Factory-overclocked to 3.2 GHz.

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