Test Systems

System Setup

AMD Athlon 64 FX-53

ASUS A8V Deluxe

2GB OCZ DDR400 SDRAM

ATI Radeon X800 XT PE
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
CATALYST 6.1

BFG GeForce 7800 GS AGP
EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO Superclock
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB
Driver version ForceWare 81.98

250GB Maxtor Hard Drive Maxline III SATA Hard Drive w/16MB Cache

Windows XP Professional SP1

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

3DMark 06
IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles
Call of Duty 2
Half-Life 2 Lost Coast
Far Cry
F.E.A.R.
Battlefield 2
Quake 4 (dual-core patch wasn’t used)

Notes

In order to simulate the performance of EVGA’s e-GeForce 7800 GS CO board, we should note that we underclocked our e-GeForce 7800 GS CO Superclock board to run at the CO’s stock speeds of 430/650MHz.