Abstract
The main objective of the Project is to establish statistically significant benchmark results regarding the effect of using various graphics cards and varying total RAM. I will use the benchmarking tools PassMark and 3DMark06 to gather results regarding performance of various functionalities of the system like CPU performance, 2D and 3D Graphics, RAM access time, Disk read/write, CD read time. I have chosen three different graphics cards, one each from the low range, middle range and the top range. These should be sufficient to provide a good benchmark. I do not expect any considerable variation for CPU, Disk and CD performance results. This is because these components are fixes and graphics card will not have much effect on their performance during these tests. I will be focusing on analyzing the 2D and 3D Graphics results. I expect to get large variations for different graphics cards, although varying RAM might not change the results significantly for each card.