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ASUS EN8600GT Silent 256MB GDDR3 (GeForce 8600 GT)

By Vincent Chang - 13 Jul 2007

Test Setup

Test Setup

Our Intel based test system was built using an Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' motherboard together with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 processor clocked at 2.66GHz. 2GB of low latency Kingston DDR2-800 HyperX memory modules were used and the SATA hard drive was a 80GB Seagate 7200.7. Windows XP Professional was installed onto the system, patched with Service Pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c.

We took out the other GeForce 8600 GT retail cards that we had previously covered, the XFX GeForce 8600 GT Fatal1ty and the Foxconn GeForce 8600 GT, both of which are overclocked and compared them against the ASUS EN8600GT Silent. Together, these three cards were running ForceWare 158.22 drivers. A reference GeForce 8600 GT was also used, along with a GeForce 8600 GTS and both these reference cards were laste tested on ForceWare 158.16 drivers (and from internal testing, there's negligible difference between both driver revisions). Given the standard clocks on the ASUS, we expect its performance to be on a similar level with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT in the following benchmarks 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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