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Posted: February 8, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Gaming Performance 3DMark2000  Although 3DMark was created to test the 3D power of video cards, it can also be used to test how fast a system can dish information to the video cards. This is a good test of overall system performance and we do see increases across all settings thanks to the FSB speeds once again. When we reach high resolutions, the speed gap decreases because the video card becomes the limiting factor. GeForce2 Ultra, limiting factor… for some reasons those two in one sentence doesn’t seem right. An Iwill KK266 based board with an accompanying Duron or Thunderbird is definitely going to give you one of the best gaming and productivity systems out there on the market. Quake 3 Arena with 1.25y Point Release  Unreal Tournament 4.32  Quake 3 makes better use of system power than Unreal Tournament does but the good thing about UT is that it doesn’t skew too heavily with video cards but does get affected with processors, although not by much. Looking at Quake 3 scores, we can tell that it makes really good use of the extra increase in our FSB. In 640x480, we see a nice 30FPS increase. Thinking back into the old days, 30FPS was definitely a smooth play setting. |
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