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And as always, a box shot, from Galaxy. Would we dare not post it ? ;)
Once hooked up in our beautifully lit gaming test rig we can fire it up. That blue PCB really suits the system quite well.
The card is quite a feast for the eyes to be honest. Also notice, and I forgot to mention this, the SLI connector, you can hook up two of these cards onto a SLI mainboard and double your gaming power.So what do you think ? Not bad huh ? Oh dude ... we are not even half way through this review.
Hardware and Software Used
Now we begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system plus the software and hardware we used.
Mainboard
- Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H (Socket AM2 nForce 590 SLi) (review)
Processor
- AMD64 Athlon FX-62 processor (Socket AM2) (review)
Graphics Cards
- GeForce 6600 GT (PCX) 128 MB, NVIDIA Reference
- GeForce 7600 GS (PCX) 256 MB, Galaxy Technology
- GeForce 7600 GT (PCX) 256 MB, NVIDIA Reference (review)
- GeForce 7900 GT (PCX) 256 MB, NVIDIA Reference
- ATI Radeon X1800 GTO (PCX), 256 MB ATI Reference (review)
Monitor
- 2x Dell 2405FPW - up-to 1920x1200
Memory
- Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 (SLI-Ready) DDR2 DIMMs (CM2X1024-8500C5) (review)
Power Supply Unit
- OCZ Technology Modstream 520W (review)
Software (Apps)
- Windows XP Professional SP2
- NVIDIA nForce 500 Platform Driver
- DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime
- Catalyst 6.5
- ForceWare 91.31
- RivaTuner 2.0 (tweak utility)
Software (Test suite)
- Far Cry (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Splinter Cell (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Splinter Cell 3 Chaos Theory (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Half-Life 2 (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One (Guru3D custom timedemo)
- 3DMark03
- 3DMark05
- 3DMark06
- AquaMark 3
- Doom 3
- Quake 4
- Serious Sam 2
- F.e.a.r
- X3: The Reunion
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (FRAPS)
