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ATI HD 2600 XT 256MB
Testing - NFSMW
 Need for Speed Most Wanted is one of the latest 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 and there is no built-in benchmarking utility so we play a few circuits and record them with FRAPS. 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 we just test AA and AF at their minimum and maximum respective settings at each resolution.
Need for Speed Most Wanted @ 1280 x 1024
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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: Testing - HL2 Episode 1 Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R. Page 6: Testing - Company of Heroes Page 7: Testing - Prey Page 8: Testing - Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 9: Testing - 3DMark 06 & HQV Page 10: Performance Summary, Power & Noise, and Overclocking Page 11: Conclusion 
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4 User Comments 1 - Posted by
titan
on July 1, 2007 - 1:19 am For Company of Heroes use the -novsync command line parameter. Somebody from Relic has more benchmarking info at http://www.relicrank.com/bloggo/2007/ 06/01/company-of-heroes-dx10-d 3d10-faq-and-benchmarking-guid e/
2 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on July 1, 2007 - 5:35 pm Yeah, I found that a little too late; I will be updating the video card benchmarks fairly soon, since I'm planning on a nice DX10 round-up. It should be fun (by fun I mean mind-numbing horrible terrible very bad work) but also helpful and enlightening. The mid-range gap is just appalling, though. It's almost as if major companies can't make stream processing cards that cost right to fill in the space. NVIDIA comes close with their 8800GTS 320MB, but it still runs about $275. . . Thanks for the heads up. I'm still getting the hang of video card benches, and I'm always willing to accept pointers. 3 - Posted by
bridge3
on October 25, 2008 - 2:36 pm I have been recommended the 2600 pro as an upgrade for my Dell Dimension 9150 (3 yrs old, present card X600). The XT looks better. They were recommended because of low power demand and they are pci-e 1 compatible. Is this right and are there better options in the $100-$200 bracket. I'd rather stick with ATI I think.
4 - Posted by
DELL 9150 Also
on October 30, 2008 - 4:49 am I have the same computer 3GB memory 250HD I upgraded to the ATI 2600XT and It works Awesome. I paid $40.00 thru Newegg.
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