Test System Setup

Test System Setup

Intel Celeron 466 MHz (x2)
Abit BP6 motherboard
Apacer 128MB PC133 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar ATA-66 hard drive
ASUS AGP-6800 Deluxe GeForce 256 DDR
Driver version: Detonator 3.68
Driver version: Detonator 5.08 w/o FSAA

Windows NT 4.0

Benchmarks

Quake 3 Retail - 512x384 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Notes

For this article, we decided to run the tests on a dual Celeron system in Windows NT. System stability in Windows 2000 was a bit flaky, and we've already seen the performance gains in Windows 98 with 5.08. Besides, we know there are plenty of you dual Celery users out there so we wanted to hook you up with 5.13 numbers.

We've read reports that the 5.13 drivers don't work properly with certain games. If you experience problems with 5.13 we recommend you go back to 5.08 or the official 3.68 reference drivers from NVIDIA.