Sapphire 2900XT 512mb

Testing

Due to requests from our members, our testing this time has been a bit more in depth. We ran several synthetic and real world gaming tests at different resolutions and with different amounts of Anti Aliasing and Anistropic Filtering.

The synthetic tests we ran were as follows: 3Dmark06, 3Dmark05, 3Dmark03; all at default settings.

The settings of the synthetic tests were as follows:

X3 Reunion @ Default
X3 Reunion @ Full detail, 1280*1024, 8xAA, 16xAF
HL2: Lost Coast @ All settings at full, no AA, AF, 1280*1024
HL2: Lost Coast @ All settings at full, 1280*1024, 6x AA, 16x AF
FEAR @ All settings at max, 1280*1024
FEAR @ All settings at max, 1600*1200

The test rig we used was as follows:

Conroe E6600 @ 3.156ghz
MSI P6N-Diamond
2gb OCZ Flex 6400 @ 900mhz
Silver Power 600w

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