The surface of the Xfire
while not a mirror finish was of such a quality that only a minimal
amount of thermal paste will be needed to installed it onto our
motherboard. There were no visible machine marks nor were there
any scratches on the surface that might be considered less than perfect for
installation.
When it comes time to install the
Xfire it is just a simply matter of
slipping the mounting bracket over the center block and then either attaching it
with screws if you're installing it on and AMD motherboard or pressing
the push-pin on the mounting bracket if you happen to be using an LGA
775 motherboard like we are.
To test the Xfire
we ran a pair of benchmarks, one of them was ran at the stock speed of
the processor (3.2 GHz) and the second one was ran with a 400 MHz
overclock. To achieve the maximum load on the processor and to
generate the most heat possible we ran one instance of SETI @ home and
one instance of Sisoft Sandra Burnin Wizard. All temperature were
recorded with an AeroCool CoolPanel II at the end of 30 minute and
recorded for our chart.
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