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We acquired a brace of GeForce 9800 GTX cards for single-card and dual-card SLI testing. We put the individual GeForce 9800 GTX up adjoin a GeForce 8800 GTX, an ATI Radeon HD 3780 X2, an ATI Radeon HD 3870, and a GeForce 8800 GT. We put our GeForce 9800 GTX SLI up adjoin the GeForce 9800 GX2, the GeForce 8800 GTX SLI, and the GeForce 8800 GT SLI
Intel Bulk 2 Extreme QX9775, Intel D5400XS, 4GB FB-DIMM (2x2GB), Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP2, 750GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA Harder Disk Drive. Animation Cards: GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB, GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB, GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB, GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB, Radeon HD 3870 512MB. Animation Drivers: ATI Catalyst 8.3, Nvidia ForceWare beta 174.74