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ASUS EN8600GT OC Gear 256MB DDR3

By Vincent Chang - 3 Aug 2007

Test Setup

Test Setup

Starting with an Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' motherboard, our test system was also installed with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 processor (2.66GHz). There was 2GB of low latency DDR2-800 HyperX memory modules from Kingston and an 80GB SATA hard drive from Seagate (7200.7). The operating system was as usual Windows XP Professional and the installation was patched with Service Pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c.

We have covered quite a few GeForce 8600 GT retail cards in the past, including overclocked ones like the XFX GeForce 8600 GT Fatal1ty and Foxconn GeForce 8600 GT. These cards will be compared against the ASUS EN8600GT OC Gear, together with a silent version from ASUS. These four cards will be running ForceWare 158.22 drivers. We also included a standard NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and 8600 GTS for reference and these are on ForceWare 158.16 drivers. The following benchmarks were tested:

  • Futuremark 3DMark05 (ver. 120)
  • Futuremark 3DMark06 (ver. 102)
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (ver 1.3)
  • F.E.A.R
  • Company of Heroes (ver 1.3)
  • Quake 4 (ver 1.2)
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