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Neuro
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Post by Neuro » Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:06 am

Post your benchmark results, hints, etc here. NO SPOILERS WHATSOEVER! Although if you bought it when it came out you should have finished the game by now. (I've beat it twice)

My benchmark results: http://dan.sscentral.net/benchmark-results.html

Soon I will be upgrading to a 6600GT, then eventually another one. Full system specs:

Antec Super LanBoy Case
Antec 450w PSU
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120gb WD1200JB H/D
20gb Quantum Fireball Secondary H/D (soon I will be buying a 160gb Serial ATA drive)
XFX GeForce 6600 256mb (still cheaper than the GT with twice the video memory&#33 ;)
Plextor Premium 52/32/52 CD-RW
NEC ND-3500A 16x DVD+/-RW (+R(W) DL support as well)
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You can pretty much ignore the times on that, I rarely ever have Xfire on when I play. I should, though.
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Post by blueviper » Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:42 am

anycard below a radeon 9800XT or geforce 5950 Ultra with 256MB memory will be slower than the 128 MB counterpart because it uses slower memory. The 6800GT will still be quite a bit faster. And I bought it the day it came out, and I have barely played it. haven't beat the SP yet, playing css.

my benchmark score

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Post by blueviper » Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:06 am

ok here is the result when I did the same benchmark as you

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/ ... hmark2.jpg

I was using twice the amount of AA and AF btw
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Post by Neuro » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:00 pm

Interesting, my A64 is a 90nm ClawHammer. As I said though, I'm upgrading to 2 6600GT's soon. I've checked benchmark scores for that already, funny thing is that 2 cards in SLI actually perform under a single x850xt at lower resolutions with AA/AF off.
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You can pretty much ignore the times on that, I rarely ever have Xfire on when I play. I should, though.
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Post by Neuro » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:06 pm

Excuse the bump, but I do have something significant to add. I just found out that 8xS antialiasing is actually more efficient and therefore faster than 4x. So do another benchmark at 4x AA/8x aniso for valid results.
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Post by Soakologist » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:17 pm

WOW! I just beat Half-Life 2 last night! It was the most incredible game I have ever played. Leaps and bounds beyond Halo 2. Plus, the ending fights are so fun! (Anyone who gets to the Citadel knows what I mean&#33 ;)
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