Test setupContrary to most, we’re doing our tests on a budget friendly Intel system; while it doesn’t compete with a decent Athlon 64 system, it can still hold its own, and it’ll be interesting to see if you can game comfortably when we add the 7800GT to this system.
Piotke's Test Setup |
CPU | Intel Celeron 330 J - 2.6 @ 3.2 GHz |
Cooling | Stock Intel Cooling |
Mainboard | Asrock 775 Dual 880 Pro |
VGA | Club3D 7800GT 256Mb Aopen Aolus 7800GTX 256Mb |
Memory | 2*512 Mb A-Data Vitesta DDR600 |
PSU | Antec TrueControl 550 Watt |
Windows XP + Service pack 2
Direct X 9.0c
Forceware 81.95
Latest chipset drivers
Test Method
We have done manual run-throughs with 4 games with the 7800GT and GTX, setting the graphical quality so it offers fluent game play without sacrificing on image quality. The games we used for testing were:
Colin McRae 2005
Far Cry
Call of Duty
Painkiller
All details were set to maximum in-game, and we altered FSAA and AF settings to find out the sweet spot of this setup ->