Test Setup

Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Rev2.0 (Nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset)
AMD Athlon 1700+ JIUHB @ 2400+
1024MB Corsair PC4000
Albatron FX5600P
80GB WD Cavier SE 8MB Cache
Windows XP Pro SP1
Det 52.16

Code Creatures

A DirectX 8 benchmark that seems to be disappearing these days. Code Creatures provides a good synthetic view on older shader techniques.

Code Creatures always seems to bring video cards to there knees. Acceptable scores here though, although in the real world 23FPS just will not do.

SpecViewPerf 7

An OpenGL benchmark which provides a good look into how the FX5600P will perform in work environment. SpecViewPerf gives good insight into how well the card performs in professional level OpenGL tasks.

Good scores shown here as well for a budget-enthusiast video card.

AquaMark3

A newer DirectX9 benchmark similar to Futurmark's 3DMark03. AquaMark3 gives another synthetic view on game performance to games of today's standards.

Another fitting score for an budget-enthusiast video card. In some tests in AquaMark3 the screen was just putting along, going at about 5-10FPS, so still not playable levels, but these are jus synthetic benchmarks.

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