ASUS EAX1950CROSSFIRE/HP/512M and EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M
Performance Comparisons with Half Life 2: Lost Coast
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Hardware Used: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz x 2 Motherboard: ECS KN3 SLI2 Extreme nForce4 SLIX16 chipset Graphics Cards: ASUS EAX1950CrossFire 512MB GDDR4 ASUS EAX1950PRO 256MB GDDR3 GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB GDDR3 Memory: 2048MB PQI PC24200 Turbo RAM CAS 3 Audio: Integrated on-board Storage: Western Digital "Raptor" 74GB 10,000RPM - SATA |
Relevant Software: Windows XP Professional SP2 DirectX 9.0c (August Redist.) nForce Drivers v9.35
NVIDIA Forceware v93.71 Benchmarks Used:
DirectX
OpenGL * - Custom Test (HH Exclusive demo) |
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;) Half-Life 2:Lost Coast |
Thanks to the dedication of hardcore PC gamers and a huge mod-community, the original Half-Life became one of the most successful first person shooters of all time. So, when Valve announced Half-Life 2 was close to completion in mid-2003, gamers the world over sat in eager anticipation. Unfortunately, thanks to a compromised internal network, the theft of a portion of the game's source code, and a tumultuous relationship with the game's distributor, Vivendi Universal, we all had to wait until November '04 to get our hands on this classic. In this test we benchmarked the add-on 'Lost Coast' at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 with 4X Anti-aliasing and 16X Anisotropic Filtering enabled, using the built-in video stress test. |
As with all tests in this review, we've added the results from a GeForce 7900GTX. In our Half-Life 2: Lost Coast testing, the EAX1950CrossFire posted the best results, leading the 7900GTX by over 5 FPS at 1280x1024 and 9 FPS at 1600x1200. The EAS1950Pro was almost an exact inverse, trailing the 7900GTX by 6 and 10 FPS respectively.
