Test Setup
I chose the 3 most popular graphics benchmarks around at the moment namely:Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and 3Dmark 2000
To see how these cards will perform in different systems I have done benchmarks, on my computer, at various different speeds, my Athlon T-Bird processor will happily run at between 700Mhz and 1300Mhz, so I've used this as the basis for the review
AMD Athlon T-Bird @ 1300Mhz 12.5 * 104Mhz
AMD Athlon T-Bird @ 700Mhz 7*100Mhz
The Basic benchmarks setup is as follows.
| Abit KT7 RAID | ||||
| 256MB Crucial PC133 RAM CAS 2 | ||||
| AMD Athlon T-Bird 1000Mhz FOP38 Heatsink | ||||
| 2* IBM Telesto 30.7 GIG ATA 100 Drives in RAID 0 | ||||
| Soundblaster Live 1024 | ||||
| Adaptec SCSI Card | ||||
| Plextor 32 Speed SCSI CD ROM | ||||
| 19" CTX monitor | ||||
| Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer Optical | ||||
| Microsoft Natural Keyboard | ||||
I used Win98 SE, with VIA 4in 1 patch version 4.25a, available here using the Official detonator 6.31 drivers available here, to enable overclocking I used the Nvidia coolbits registry file.