Test Setup

Test Systems
System High End
(Primary System)		 Medium
CPU Intel Pentium4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium4 1.8GH2
Motherboard ASUS P4S8X
RAM 512MB (1x512MB) PC2700 333DDR RAM
Network Integrated
Video PowerColor Evil Xabre 400
Video Drivers 3.08
OS WindowsXP Professional SP1
DirectX Runtime 8.1

 

Benchmarks
SPECViewperf 7.0 All tests

3DMark2001SE

Build 330
Selected Benchmarks used in default configuration
 

Games Benchmarks - DirectX

Max Payne

Version 1.05
Full Game Detail Settings
Trilinear Filtering
3DCenter's Benchmark mod used
"Shooting Alex" Benchmark

Dungeon Siege

Version 1.1
ExtremeTech Benchmark Modification used
Full Game Detail Settings

Unreal Tournament 2003

UT2003 Build 2136
Full Detail Settings
All games benchmarks using 32bit colour and 32bit textures (where applicable)
 

Games Benchmarks - OpenGL

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Version 1.33
3DCenter's 'Checkpoint' Demo used
Full Game Detail Settings
Trilinear Filtering
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Version 1.02a
Full Game Detail Settings
Trilinear Filtering

Serious Sam: Second Encounter

Version 1.05
ExtremeGFX Add On used
Anisotropic Filtering Disabled, Trilinear Filtering Only
"The Citadel" Demo
All games benchmarks using 32bit colour and 32bit textures (where applicable)

For the system testing we usually use a PIII 733MHz based setup as a 'low end' system. However the Xabre 400 refused to post at boot-up, presumably due to AGP compatibility issues on the older ASUS CUSL2 motherboard used with that PIII system, and so we were not able to run benchmarks on it. We've still used the Pentium4 2.53GHz machine as the high-end system and a P4 1.8GHz CPU as the mid-end. Hopefully the differences between these two CPU's will give a flavour of how lower powered CPU's will affect the Xabre 400's performance.