CrossFire Xpress 3200: RD580 for AM2
by Wesley Fink on June 1, 2006 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Standard Gaming Performance
We tested with our recently revised group of game tests, which includes Call of Duty 2, Serious Sam 2, Half Life 2: Lost Coast, F.E.A.R, Far Cry, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All boards were tested with the ATI X1900 XT with Catalyst 6.4 drivers and the NVIDIA 7900 GTX to allow direct comparison to other motherboard gaming results.
X1900 XT standard results are in gold, while NVIDIA 7900 GTX results on the ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 AM2 are in red. Top performance was generally split among the games between the ATI board running X1900 XT and the Foxconn 590 running NVIDIA 7900 GTX. There was no knockout winner in standard gaming performance.
We tested with our recently revised group of game tests, which includes Call of Duty 2, Serious Sam 2, Half Life 2: Lost Coast, F.E.A.R, Far Cry, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All boards were tested with the ATI X1900 XT with Catalyst 6.4 drivers and the NVIDIA 7900 GTX to allow direct comparison to other motherboard gaming results.
X1900 XT standard results are in gold, while NVIDIA 7900 GTX results on the ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 AM2 are in red. Top performance was generally split among the games between the ATI board running X1900 XT and the Foxconn 590 running NVIDIA 7900 GTX. There was no knockout winner in standard gaming performance.
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Gary Key - Thursday, June 1, 2006 - link
Wes's original hard drive met an untimely death during testing. However, the chart is incorrect as the Maxtor drive has a 16MB cache also and in our IPEAK tests the two drives are very comparable if not the same. We did not see any differences in the game scores and PCMark was off about 20 points, well within the margin of error for testing for this application.