ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition
Test setup:
| Test bench |
PCI-E |
| CPU |
P4 3.6Mhz 800FSB LGA |
| Mb |
Intel D925XCV (i925X) |
| Memory |
PC2-4300 (533MHz DDR2) 2x256Mb in the dual-channel-mode
Memory latency timings - 4:4:4 |
| HDD |
Barracuda 7200.7 80Gb |
| DVD-ROM |
SONY DW-D22A |
| OS |
WinXP + SP2 + DirectX 9.0c |
| Drivers |
ForceWare 66.81
Catalyst 4.11 |
Benchmarking:
Half Life 2
There are merely three games most interesting to the readers and reviewers in terms of benchmarking results - Far Cry, DOOM3, and Half-Life2. For the first two, the alignment of forces is already known, and the results for HL2 were also predictable. To run benchmarks, we recorded our own demo using the canal map. Every day, the game is complemented with new patches, even Russian localization appeared, a deathmatch, new maps, etc.. One day finished with the traffic counter set to 1 GB which extremely annoyed me. In the end, we had to disconnect the network cable from the test PC, fix the game with build 2215 and re-run all the benchmarks on a unified assembly. Once benchmarks were over, another new patch was downloaded :)
But manufacturers are mostly interested in the complete alignment of forces in MadOnion's tests. Let's satisfy their interest:
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