AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT review -
Page 6 - The New ForceWare Drivers #2
Look at the tabs and you'll notice that performance is set at Quality by default where it now offers a High Performance, Performance and Quality mode for your Image Quality versus performance preference.
Here you can select Anti Aliasing (AA) up-to 8xS skewed grid modes and Anisotropic Filtering modes (AF) to 8x. Take note of the fact that the Texture sharpening setting that will crank up the AF one level has been removed.
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The High Performance mode offers users the highest frame rate possible.
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Performance mode offers users a blend between image quality and performance.
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Quality mode offers users the highest image quality while still delivering very good performance
Several properties are hidden at default and for the advanced users among us these settings are quite interesting. You can enable then by downloading the Hidden Features patch from our Detonator driver file section. The results are additional options as shown below:
New layout, here you can see you can check and change AGP settings in here and functions like Fast Writes. Quite important if you experience stability issues, not something you should temper with on the fly though.
There are two tabs if you want to overclock with the help of the standard drivers. Leave 2D alone,
So, just click it, sit back and relax .. and your card will be overclocked automatically. It's quite accurate to be honest, don't rely on the end result too much though. I also recommend to use this feature once your system has been warmed up (ambient
Clock settings in 2D mode. As stated, leave them alone.
Small side note, as far as we can tell the product does not have a thermal diode build in, probably to cut overall costs. So it's impossible to read out core temperature.
The product we will review today is the new NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT. I say new because it's fresh in the Quarter 4 lineup from NVIDIA. BTW NVIDIA, copycatting is not really a nice thing, the XT obviously has been chosen to compete with the Radeon 9x00 XT series of graphics cards.