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XFX GeForce 7600 GT 256MB PCI-E XXX Edition
Need for Speed Most Wanted
 Need for Speed Most Wanted is the newest in a long series of NFS titles. This game is extremely taxing even on some of the highest-end hardware available today if you crank up the video settings. And of course, we do crank up the settings for benchmarking. Unfortunately this game does not support a demo recording feature that I am aware of and there is no built-in benchmarking utility. As such, I am forced to use FRAPS and run the same course multiple times for the various settings. For benchmarking I go to Quick Race > Custom Race > Circuit > Ironwood Estates > 2 laps, and I use the same car each time (a pimped out RX-8 if you're curious, but not too pimped out because I don't have the time to play and earn more upgrades). Each test is repeated 3 times, however, the weather changes every race (and during the race), so while the benchmark results are pretty reliable, they're not exactly scientific. To help keep the tests as consistent as possible, I run the same course every race, and I never use the nitrous (because it queues special effects which I can't reproduce precisely every race). All of the in-game video settings are maxed out and the only variables are AA, AF, and resolution. Since the AA and AF sliders represent different values on ATI and NVIDIA cards I just test AA and AF at their minimum and maximum respective settings at each resolution. Otherwise the comparisons lose their value. I should note that it appears from gameplay and screenshots I've taken that the minimum texture quality (AF) setting represents bilinear filtering. I would think they would at least make it trilinear since it's noticeably better quality and what I consider the standard 'minimum' AF setting - but that's neither NVIDIA nor ATI's fault. Silly EA. Patch 1.3 was used.
Need for Speed Most Wanted @ 1024 x 768
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Need for Speed Most Wanted @ 1600 x 1200
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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card & Bundle Page 3: Test Setup Page 4: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2 Page 5: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Page 6: Benchmarks: Quake 4 Page 7: Benchmarks: X3 Reunion Demo Page 8: Benchmarks: Chronicles of Riddick Page 9: Benchmarks: F.E.A.R. Page 10: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 11: Benchmarks: Black & White 2 Page 12: Benchmarks: 3DMark '06 Page 13: Performance Summary Page 14: Conclusion 
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
CTM420
on May 23, 2006 - 8:42 am The XFX 7600 GT XXX Edition is what I just put in a new PC and every game I try runs great with this card. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas all run excellently with it. Mine didn't come with Ghost Recon but it's still a great value. 2 - Posted by
Kurtis
on May 23, 2006 - 2:23 pm yeah, they just started bundling GRAW
3 - Posted by
dparakatis
on October 16, 2006 - 5:25 am HI THERE, I JUST PURCHASED THE BEAUTIFULL GPU AND WORKS PRETY WELL.I OVERCLOCKED HER WITH THE BUNDLE SOFTWARE AT 634 Mhz (CLOCK) AND 815 Mhz (MEMORY) AND IT WORKS PREETY WELL (5 HOURS PLAYING ROME-TOTAL WAR), BUT DOESN'T GO ANY MORE. IF YOU HAVE ANY BETTER RESULTS PLEASE DROP ME A MAIL WITH HOW YOU DID IT. WITH THIS TUNNING I MANAGED TO ADD AN AVERAGE OF 1,5 FPS IN EACH GRAPHIC TEST OF 3DMARK06. ANY FURTHER INFO WOULD BE VALUABLE FOR ME. THATS ALL
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