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Review by:

Michael

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

October 22, 2004
   

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TEST SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS

 CPU Socket 478 Northwood
Pentium 4 "2.8" @ 3.5GHz
Memory OCZ PC3500-EB
@ 250/ 3-3-3-6
Hard Drives 2x Western Digital "Raptor" 36GB
RAID-0 array
Motherboard Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
Multi-Media
Audio Card
Sound Blaster Auidgy2
Power Supply Cooler Master
Real Power RS-450-ACLY
450 Watt unit
Operating System Windows XP Professional
Service Pack 2
Video Card Drivers ATI Catalyst 4.10

     With the latest wave of video cards to hit the market, power supply ratings have become a focal point on the list of system requirements. VisionTek recommends a 350 Watt power supply as a minimum for use with the XTASY X800XT. The Cooler Master RealPower 450 I have installed in the test system has a meter that displays the level of power consumption in watts. We watched the meter during all of the intense graphics tests and benchmarks and NEVER saw the power consumption rates peak any higher than 300 watts. Conferring with my mathematically inclined friends, they tell me that using 300 watts of a 450 watt system is a utilization rate of about 66.67%. Now, when you consider that you want your consumption level to be no greater than 80% of the power supplies rated maximum, that still leaves me with a little headroom.

     The first wave of benchmarks will be completed using the video cards default clock speeds of 500MHz GPU and 500MHz (1.0GHz DDR) memory.

3D Mark 2001 23,845
Game Test 1
Car Chase (LOW)
300.1 fps
Game Test 1
Car Chase (HIGH)
103.8 fps
Game Test 2
Dragothic (LOW)
417.5 fps
Game Test 2
Dragothic (HIGH)
225.2 fps
Game Test 3
Lobby (LOW)
291.7 fps
Game Test 3
Lobby (HIGH)
128.7 fps
Game 4
Nature
229.9 fps

 

3D Mark 2003 12,111
Game Test 1
Wings of Fury
291.7 fps
Game Test 2
Battle of ProxyCon
91.0 fps
Game Test 3
Trolls Lair
73.7 fps
Game Test 4
Nature
81.3 fps
CPU TEST: Index 961
CPU TEST 1 105.2 fps
CPU TEST 2 17.4 fps
Sound Test
No Sounds
78.3 fps
Sound Test
24 Sounds
69.5 fps
Sound Test
60 Sounds
62.2 fps

 

3D Mark 2005 4,460
Game Test 1
Return to Proxyconn
17.4 fps
Game Test 2
Firefly Forest
12.7 fps
Game Test 3
Canyon Flight
25.8 fps
CPU TEST: Index 4578
CPU TEST 1 2.4 fps
CPU TEST 2 3.9 fps

     Individual Game Tests

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     Doom 3

     1024 x 768 = 76.8 fps
     1280 x 1024 = 64.4 fps
     1600 x 1200 = 51.3 fps

     ---------------------------------------------------------------

     Halo: Combat Evolved

     1024 x 768 = 89.81 fps
     1280 x 1024 = 78.6 fps
     1600 x 1200 = 60.76 fps

     ---------------------------------------------------------------

     Call of Duty

     1024x768 = 166.5 fps
     1280x1024 = 163.2 fps
     1600x1200 = 156.0 fps

     ---------------------------------------------------------------

     Unreal Tournament 2004

     1024x768 = 153.49 fps botmatch |  dm-rankin: 220.77 fps  |  as-convoy: 80.73 fps  |  br-colossus: 158.96 fps
     1280x1024 159.93 fps botmatch  |  dm-rankin: 219.99 fps  |  as-convoy: 83.07 fps  |  br-colossus: 176.73 fps )
     1600x1200 150.46 fps botmatch  |  dm-rankin: 213.00 fps  |  as-convoy: 80.97 fps  |  br-colossus: 157.39 fps )

     ---------------------------------------------------------------

     Game play is what the VistionTek XTASY X800XT is all about, and game play is what it will deliver! Until we get to 3D Mark 2005, there was only ONE test that dropped below 33 frame per second. 33 fps is considered cinematic motion and is the same speed that all motion picture movies are shot at. So in theory, if your game is playing along at 33 FPS or higher, than all motion and effects should appear seamless and fluid. Since it was a CPU test in 3D Mark 2003 that dropped below the 30 FPS mark, we can't attribute that soley to the video card. 3D Mark 2005 is The Dream Crusher! Coming along at the dawn of a new video card era, 3D Mark 2005 will raise the bar for video card benchmarks by eliminating the inflated scores that we see with 3D Mark 2001 and that we're beginning to see in 3D Mark 2003.

     Getting into real world game play, Doom 3 looks simply AWESOM at 1600 x 1200 with Ultra video settings and the frame rate still hold above 33 fps and actually averages in at 51.3! From personal experience gained from actually PLAYING Doom3 at 1600 x 1200 I can say that you will experience moments of sluggish response while new textures and bump maps are being loaded. This will be most noticeable during the first few minutes that you spend playing the game, or when a totally new texture (ie: monster) is encountered. There is one very popular modification that any user can do to the config .cfg file  which increases the amount of physical RAM that Doom3 will use to cache textures. This is very useful but should only be implemented for users with 1GB of system ram, or more.

     Halo was another game that was considered brutal on a video card, but the XTASY X800XT makes quick work of it too, even at 1600 x 1200 posting an average frame rate of 60.76,