I tested the Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 on a Pentium 3 running at 500Mhz (620Mhz for the overclocking test). It had the following equipment:

• Intel Pentium 3

• Abit BX6 v2 Motherboard

• In Win 24" ATX Case With 250 Watts PS

• 128 Megs Corsair PC-133 SDRAM

• Acer 40X CD Rom

• Seagate Medalist Pro 6.5 Gig 7200RPM Hard Drive

• Sound Blaster Live Value

• Acer PCI Network card

• Windows 98 SE

I used Quake 2, Quake 3 Test 1.08, Unreal and 3D Mark 99 Max as the benchmarks. All tests were ran 3 times and the average score is shown. All drivers were the latest ones from the manufacturers. I've also included benchmarks from the Viper 770 Ultra running at default speed of 150/183 using NVIDIA 2.08 drivers for comparison. The Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 was running at default speed of 175/183 using NVIDIA 2.08 drivers.

Vsync was turned off. No tweaks or special cfg files were used. 3D Mark 99 Max was ran at 800x600, 16 bit color, 16 bit Z-Buffer, Triple Frame Buffer.

The Quake 3 Test 1.08 timedemo was ran on the default "high quality" setting found in the graphic options, which are:

Resolution: 800x600
Graphic mode: HIGH QUALITY
GL Driver: DEFAULT
GL extensions: ON
Color : 32 BIT
Full screen: ON
Lighting: LIGHTMAP
Geometric detail: HIGH
Texture detail: 3
Texture quality: 32 BIT
Texture Filter: TRILINEAR

The game options are:

Marks on walls: YES
Ejecting brass:  YES
Dynamic lighting: YES
Light flares: NO
Identify target: YES
High quality sky: YES

Benchmark Scores

As expected, the Xentor 32 beat the Viper Ultra in every benchmarks due to its higher clock speed. The question is, will this hold true once the cards are overclocked? We'll find out in the next page.

Next Page: Overclock Benchmarks