Date:
Tuesday , January 18, 2005
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Sean Quinn
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ABIT RX600Pro Guru Review

ABIT is introducing some new video card technology known as vGuru. We are going to explore the ABIT RX600Pro and compare it in gaming against a GeForce 6600.

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System Test Setup:

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4), AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2 x 512MB Corsair XMS PC3200LLPro TwinX Dual Channel DDR400 Cas2, Western Digital 74GB Raptor SATA/150, Windows XP Professional SP2 with DirectX 9.0c.

For our system platform setups we used the new ASUS A8N-SLI PCI Express platform with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU at default speeds.

ABIT RX600Pro 256MB PCI-E – We tested the ABIT RX600Pro at both the “Normal” mode and the “XTurbo” mode. Normal mode clock speeds are exactly 405MHz VPU and 514MHz memory. XTurbo clock speeds are exactly 500MHz VPU and 514MHz memory. We used Catalyst 4.12 with CCC on default settings with VSYNC disabled.

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 128MB PCI-E – For comparison we used a reference NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT 128MB video card and downclocked it to non-GT, regular 6600 speeds. The core was set at 300MHz and the memory at 550MHz, which seems to be the most common setting manufacturers are using for the memory speed on the regular 6600. We used NVIDIA ForceWare beta version 67.03.

Game Evaluation Setup

Please be aware we test our video cards a bit different from what is the norm. We concentrate on examining the real world gameplay that each video card provides. Gameplay includes performance and image quality evaluation. The Highest Playable section shows the best Image Quality delivered at a playable frame rate. We use a high performance system with a very fast CPU in order to remove CPU bottlenecking.