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Game Benchmarks
To evaluate the effect of PEG Link Mode on actual games, we tested it using the following games :
- Far Cry
- Doom 3
- Counter Strike : Source
HardwareOC's Far Cry benchmarking tool was used to test Far Cry with an average of 3 runs of 'PC Games Hardware Demo'.
Doom 3 is still one of the most graphics-intensive game in the market today, and easily stresses the graphics card to the limit. That makes it very suitable for testing the PEG Link Mode. We used the standard 'demo1' run for benchmarking with an average of 3 runs.
We also used the Video Stress Test in Counterstrike : Source. It does not represent the actual gameplay, but the results are fairly consistent.
We tested all five available PEG Link Mode options in the ASUS P5AD2 Premium motherboard (BIOS version 1010) :-
- Slow
- Normal
- Fast
- Faster
- Auto
Let's see how well the overclocked cards fare in the real world!
The Testbed
| Processor | Intel Pentium 4 630 (3.0GHz) Socket
775 - overclocked to 3.6GHz @ 240MHz x 15 |
| Memory | OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Gold Series
(512MB x 2) |
| Motherboard | ASUS P5AD2 Premium - Intel 925X - Socket 775 - BIOS version 1010 |
| Hard Disk | 120GB Western Digital WD1200 |
| Graphics Cards | NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
PCIe - 425MHz core, 550MHz memory Sapphire X300 128MB 128-bits PCIe - 325MHz core, 200MHz memory |
| Graphics Drivers | NVIDIA ForceWare 77.77 ATI Catalyst 5.7 |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 |
| Power Supply | ACRyan RyanPower2 450W |
