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ASUS EN8600GT OC Gear 256MB DDR3

By Vincent Chang - 3 Aug 2007

Results - Quake 4 & Company of Heroes (SM2.0+ Benchmarks)

Results - Quake 4 & Company of Heroes (SM2.0+ Benchmarks)

Quake 4 was another case where the two ASUS cards trailed the reference card. At least the ASUS EN8600GT OC Gear managed a slight lead over the silent version. We also encountered a strange problem in the game during our timed demos. The OC Gear kept freezing during the demo at the exact same point and despite our attempts to reinstall both the OC Gear drivers and its related utilities (SmartDoc and GamerOSD), it refused to complete the benchmark. Only after we had completely uninstalled all drivers and applications required by OC Gear - essentially testing the card based solely on its hardware - did the problem vanish and we could finish our benchmarking. We speculate that the OC Gear module and applications could in some way be interfering with the game but based on only one example, it's not conclusive. Meanwhile, ASUS' engineers are trying to replicate this 'bug' in its labs and we'll update this section if there is outcome to this issue. So far from their current findings, it seems more like an isolated issue.

As for Company of Heroes, the results were reversed in where the two ASUS cards managed to overturn the scores of the reference GeForce 8600 GT, with the OC Gear version rightly outdoing the silent edition. There were even moments when it seemed that the OC Gear could catch up with the overclocked Foxconn card.

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