MSI N9600GT ZILENT review

Страница 3 - Test configuration

The test configuration was provided by our partners from Solytrade , with the idea that it will be serving for our soon to come NVIDIA 3-WAY SLI review. The machine is serious in order not or bottleneck the videocard, but bear in mind that simpler dual core processor would provide you with different results, lower presumably...

Hardware:

• XFX 780i 3-way SLI Motherboard
• Intel QuadCore Q6600 @ 3GHz 9x333
• A-DATA DDR800 2x2GB @ 1066MHz 12-5-5-5
• 36GB Western Digital Raptor 10 000 RPM
• Corsair TX750W PSU

Software:

• Windows Vista Ultimate x86
• NVIDIA 174.54 x86 WHQL Drivers (for 9600 GT)
• NVIDIA 169.25 x86 WHQL Drivers (for 8800 GT, Ultra)
• NVIDIA 169.32 x86 WHQL Drivers (for 8800 GS)
• AMD Catalyst 8.2 WHQL Drivers (for HD 3850, HD 3870, HD 3870 X2)

Videocards we tested:

• MSI N9600GT ZILENT
• 9600 GT 512MB
• 8800 GS 384MB
• HD 3850 512MB

The ones in BOLD are the mid range videocards - around 320 leva (~160 Euro)


• Sapphire HD 3870 X2 1GB
• Sapphire HD 3870 512MB
• Albatron 8800 GT 512MB
• XFX 8800 Ultra 768MB

List of tests:

• Crysis DirectX 10 1.2 Patched
• World in Conflict DirectX 10
• Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
• Unreal Tournament 3 1.2 Pached
• Call of Juarez DirectX 10 Benchmark
• 3DMark06

Resolutions / settings, that we choose for the tests were based on the fact that the card is supposed in the middle class and isn't performing all to well under more demanding resolutions /settings than the following::

• 1280x1024 without Antialiasing
• 1280x1024 with 4x Antialiasing
• 1680x1050 without Antialiasing

We tested without no changes on the drivers of the cards with only two exceptions with HD 3870 X2 in Crysis and Lost Planet, where we manually disabled Catalyst A.I., due to the horrendous artifacts in the games. If any other remarks were made they are noted in each test. Let the testing begin now...