Testing
I will let you know here and now that all of the testing was done in Windows XP. The reason for this is two-fold. First, NVIDIA's Vista drivers are less than stellar. I know, there are many people that do not have any trouble with them, but I am not one of those. Second, because Creative had no driver for their X-Fi sound cards at the time of my testing, my Vista installation was less than solid. Therefore, because I would be able to tell if poor test results were do to the hardware, drivers, or other software/driver issues, I chose to forego testing in Vista altogether.
Main Testing Setup:
CPU
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 @ 2.6GHz
RAM
2GB Patriot PC3200 DDR @ 400MHz
Mobo
MSI RX480 Neo2
Sound Card
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
OS
Windows XP Pro SP2 32-bit
Monitor
Dell 2405FPW 24" LCD
Video Cards Used in Testing
Video Card
Core Clock
Memory Clock
Driver Version
EVGA 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3
576MHz
900MHz
158.19
Albatron 8600 GTS 256MB DDR3
675MHz
2000MHz
158.19
Benchmarking was done using 3DMark05 Pro with the 1.3 patch and 3DMark06 Pro with the 1.1 patch. All tests were run at 1920x1200 with the exception of the default scores generated for the table below, which were run at 1024x768 for 3DMark05 and 1280x1024 for 3DMark06.
3DMark Default Scores
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