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MSI N9600GT-OC T2D512 review |
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Written by Димитър Динчев a.k.a. Veseliq
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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Page 4 - Crysis
There is hardly a thing that had not been said about this game, but let's summarize. This is a long awaited Crytek release, sort of a heir of FarCry, which 3 years ago was dazzling with its graphics, making gamers with the top-notch video cards (GeForce 5900 / Radeon 9800 at that time) murmur about being unable to play at highest settings like they were used to. Their high-end systems just being unable to cope with the heavy engine.
In other words - Crysis was one of the MOST expected game of 2007. Ingame you assume the role of future Spec-ops soldier, equipped with the so called “Crysis Suit” - a suit giving you special skills and powers. Henceforth we'll be talking about graphics and scenery so real as if pulled out of a Hollywood blockbuster. The vast and incredibly detailed levels require a large amount of memory, so if you fancy enjoying some of the more special DX10 effects and higher resolution, high class video card, processor an lots of RAM are a must. And they were... almost enough.
On the Internet you can easily find a tool named "Crysis Benchmark", but we had problems with it under Vista x64, under the 32-bit variant of the OS all was fine, so that little software made our lives easier. All tests were ran at least twice and the result is the divided sum between all attempts.
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Results were as expected - the raised frequencies of MSI N9600GT-OC T2D512 grant it certain advantage to 9600 GT, which is running neck and neck with HD 3870. But with this MSI card finally we gained (though a little), more than 24 frames (at 1280x1024, which is still the most common resolution). It's good to know that even the cheapest models of the AMD card in question - HD 3870, cost more than this overclocked MSI. Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 8800 GS are not worth commenting, 9600 GT made them the "former mid class". We'll waste no time commenting on HD 3870 X2 too, since at this time it has rather ugly problems with drivers, supposedly fixes with new BETA ones... When they go official we'll re-run theHD 3870 X2 review, to see how things go.
