Test Systems

System Setup

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800

ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe (PCIe 16x system)
ASUS P5NSLI (PCIe 8x system)

2GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB
Driver version ForceWare 91.47

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

Windows XP Professional SP2

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

Half-Life 2 Lost Coast
F.E.A.R. 1.07
Quake 4 1.2
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Call of Duty 2 1.3
3DMark 06

Notes

Again keep in mind that we’re testing the NVIDIA cards with the image quality setting at “High Quality” mode rather than the driver default setting of “Quality”. We’ve noted that the HQ setting significantly reduces the amount of texture shimmering in games such as Battlefield 2. This change does negatively impact NVIDIA’s performance, but it’s a tweak many NVIDIA users seem to be doing with their own cards so we’re doing it too.

We were unable to test Call of Duty 2 under NVIDIA’s 8x and 16x Super-AA modes with the P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe motherboard. Unfortunately at those settings the game would repeatedly lockup or crash during testing.