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Foxconn 7950 GT OC 512MB PCI-E
Testing - NFSMW
 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 @ 1280 x 960
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Need for Speed Most Wanted @ 1600 x 1200
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Page 1: Introduction, The Card / Bundle
Page 2: Test Setup Page 3: Testing - Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Page 4: Testing - Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R. Page 6: Testing - Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 7: Testing - X3 Reunion Demo Page 8: Testing - 3DMark 06 Page 9: Performance Summary Page 10: Conclusion 
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1 User Comment 1 - Posted by
daytroxative
on February 13, 2007 - 2:09 am The packaging i've seen for them is funny looking for this card. Overall, foxconn cards in retail are some of the cheapest, pretty well manufactured cards you can get. Or maybe it's just the suppliers around here. But we get these and the 8800's cheap.
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