Well, this is what you wanted to know. Just how much
speed do I get with a $500 video card? To find out, I installed the green Ultra
into my personal gaming machine which is made of the following:
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Intel Pentium III @ 1000Mhz
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Abit BX133-RAID
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256 Megs PC-133 RAM
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Two IBM 30 Gig ATA 100 HD in RAID 0
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Sound Blaster Live! Value
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Windows 2000
Installation of the Annihilator 2 Ultra is as simple as
any other plug and play device. Turn off computer, install video card, turn on
computer, install drivers. Total time, less than 5 minutes. For these Quake 3
benchmarks, I use reference 6.31 Win 2000 drivers from nVidia.
Quake 3 Normal Setting
I used the two time demo provided by Quake 3. Just for
fun, I tossed in the NV15 demo I got from nVidia. This demo is a super high
polygon demo with something like 100,000 polygons per screen. The NV15 demo has
crushed other video cards but the Creative Ultra was able to run at over 50
frames per seconds! Normal Quake 3 setting proved to be nothing more than a cake
walk for this Ultra, with frame rates pushing nearly 200 FPS.
Quake 3 High Quality Setting
Normally, switching from normal to high
quality setting will drop frame rate by up to 40% but it had nearly no effects
on the Annihilator Ultra as frame rate remained sky high. The NV15 demo only
drop 1 frame per second in the switch.
Custom Setting
This custom setting is how I play Quake 3.
This benchmark was taken with the resolution cranked to 1600x1200 and color
depth and texture at 32 bit. Everything else was "max" out. Check it out! The
first video card The Tech Zone has ever tested to run over 60 FPS with these
settings.
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