System Overview & Testing Procedures
Just to recap our system specs here they are again.
Processor: Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor(2.30GHz 6MB)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX660M 2GB
Memory: 8.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
Display: 15.6″ FHD LED Glare Wedge 1920×1080
Storage: 1TB 5400RPM+32GB SSD
Optical: Blu-ray/DVD-RW
Wireless: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200BGN + Bluetooth
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64
Here are screenshots of both CPU-Z and GPU-Z so you can see what is going on under the hood.
We will be running the Y580 through a battery of benchmarks. I have seperated them into different categories.
CPU & Memory Testing
SiSoftware Sandra
– Processor Arithmetic
– Processor Multimedia
AIDA 64
– Cache & Memory Benchmark
Geekbench
Overall System Testing
PCMark 7
PCMark Vantage
Windows 7 Experience Index
Video Testing
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
Heaven Benchmark 3.0
Stone Giant Demo
Game Testing
Lost Planet 2
Alien vs Predator
Battlefield 3
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