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XFX GeForce 7600 GT 256MB PCI-E XXX Edition
Black & White 2
 Black & White 2 may not be a hugely successful PC game in terms of sales, but it does an amazing job of stressing video cards. Since the game does not offer the ability to record timedemos, and since it would be very hard to reproduce a very similar "run' in real game-play time and time again, we resorted to using the game's opening sequence where the Gods fly to the island and the Aztecs attack in conjunction with FRAPS to benchmark. This sequence is rendered in real-time, of course, which is why we're able to benchmark with it. The in-game video settings are all set to High under Custom, and the resolution and AA/AF settings are set as needed. As usual, we test each setting 3 times and average the results. The 1.1 patch was used for testing.
Black & White 2 @ 1024 x 768
40
37
33
30
27
25
21
17
16
11
0
FPS
80
Black & White 2 @ 1600 x 1200
28
23
20
20
17
11
10
9
6
0
0
FPS
80
Black & White 2 @ 2048 x 1536
16
15
14
12
4
4
3
2
0
0
0
FPS
80
In Black & White 2, the 7800 GT froze at 2048x1536. The 7600 GT froze at 1600x1200 and 2048x1536. These cards wouldn't freeze EVERY time at these resolutions, but most of the time, so the scores were recorded as 0. I should also note that there is a new patch out for Black & White 2 (1.2) which apparently makes a huge difference in the performance on ATI cards, making things more even between NVIDIA and ATI - according to a recent article at Anandtech.
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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