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- Date:
- Monday , January 19, 2004
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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Albatron FX5700Ultra VidCard
We take a look at Albatron’s FX5700Ultra and compare it with the ATI 9600XT. We also see how they compare at two CPU clock speeds.
Software:
As indicated on the previous page there are four CD’s included. When you pop in the driver CD you will be prompted with the menu above. You can install the detonator drivers, WDM drivers, overclocking tool, acrobat reader and DirectX.
If you click on detonator driver you will be shown this menu. The latest drivers included on this CD are 52.14, which are WHQL. As always you may go to NVIDIA and download the latest Forceware Drivers. The WDM drivers are included if your card supports video capture.
The overclocking tool is nothing but a registry file you can merge with the registry that enables CoolBits to reveal the overclocking tab.
The gamepack CD includes Zax, AOW II, MaxPayne, Rally Trophy and BeamBrackers.
WinDVD is also included for DVD playback. WinDVD Creator is included to edit video, even though there is no video capture capabilities built into this card.
Drivers:
The latest drivers from NVIDIA that have gone WHQL recently is Forceware 53.03. It is also worth noting that a few retail manufacturers have already had this driver available on their websites for some time now. The driver we are using in this review is the WHQL version of 53.03 provided by NVIDIA.
As you can see above the default 2D speed is set at 300MHz core and 906MHz memory. When in 3D mode the core clocks up to 475MHz and the memory stays at 906MHz.
Test Setup:
ABIT IC7-G (i875P), Intel Pentium 4 3GHz “C” and a Pentium 4 2.4GHz “C”, 2 X 512MB Corsair XMS PC3200LL TwinX Dual Channel DDR400, Maxtor 40GB ATA/133, Windows XP Professional SP1 with DirectX 9.0b.
Albatron FX5700U – Operating at default clock speeds 475/906 using Forceware 53.03 (WHQL).
ATI Radeon 9600XT – Operating at default clock speeds 500/600 using Catalyst Driver 3.9 (WHQL.)
In this review we compare the Albatron FX5700U to a Radeon 9600XT. We also compare both cards with two different CPU’s. Our goal is to first look at how CPU speed affects performance in these games and to see if the CPU or the Video Card is bottleneck, and our second goal is to see which video card scales better with an increase in CPU speed. The two CPUs we are using are a Pentium 4 2.4GHz “C” and a Pentium 4 3.0GHz “C”. The only difference is a pure 600MHz CPU clock difference.