Date:
Sunday , July 14, 2002
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Sean Quinn
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Asus GeForce4 Ti 4600 Ultra Deluxe

Like Copper? Like different implementations of cooling? Check out this review to see if this card lives up to its name.

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Serious Sam 2

I'm using the script "Extreme Quality" and "Maximum Quality". Extreme Quality sets everything to maximum quality plus anisotropic filtering at level 8. Maximum Quality is everything Extreme Quality is minus the anisotropic filtering. The Elephant Atrium demo was used.

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This test is important to look at as it has all graphics features set on high in this game plus the highest anisotropic level and anti-aliasing. You can see how much Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic together decrease performance to judge what the best playable settings are. It looks like you will be able to play up to 1280x1024 with 2X AA at a very playable frame rate. Enabling 4X AA has a much bigger decrease in performance. At this setting you may be able to play at 1280x1024, but with intense battle scenes you may feel it necessary to drop to 1024x768. Overclocking really doesn’t help increase performance all that much in this benchmark at these settings. One thing is certain though, this game is just beautiful with full anisotropic and 4X AA enabled.

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With anisotropic disabled, overclocking gives us more of an increase in performance. Also, we are now able to play every resolution all the way with 4X AA with smooth frame rates. Just look at 1024x768 with 4X AA. We are pulling over 100FPS with the video card overclocked to 320MHz/740MHz.

Jedi Knight 2

I used settings of: Color Depth: 32 bit, Full Screen: On, Geometric Detail: High, Texture Detail: Very High, Texture Quality: 32 bit, Texture Filter: Trilinear, Detailed Shaders: On.

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In this game 1024x768 and 1280x1024 are close in performance until you enable 2X and especially 4X AA. Overclocking helps most in the higher resolutions with AA enabled. You would be able to play up to 1600x1200 at 4X AA smoothly as long as your video card is overclocked, otherwise you may want to back it down to 1280x1024 or even 1024x768 at 4X AA.

No doubt that what we are seeing here is a CPU bottleneck as well. But it is still worthy to show you the scores as while VidCards are becoming much more important in the entire subsystem roll of a normal computer, your box still has to have the power to feed all the other high-end equipment you can put in them.