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	MSI FX5900-VTD128: MSI is well known for packing in a lot of features and extras into their products, and doing so at a lower price point than the competition. So, how does their FX5900 solution fit in?

	Date: August 1, 2003
	Catagory: Video Cards
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	Splinter Cell New to our test bench is UbiSoft's 3rd person action game, Splinter Cell. We used the , and ran the cards through the gamut. Splinter Cell @ 1024, Max Detail Splinter Cell @ 1280, Max Detail Splinter Cell @ 1600, Max Detail We've left out the 4xAA/8xAF results here because we were running into the same problems as the Quake 3 Engine games. The memory buffer was getting saturated, leaving us with results in the vicinity of noAA/noAF. This was the case for both cards this time around. At high frame rates and a lower image quality (no AA and AF that is) the Radeon 9700 Pro outscores the FX5900, but it is dethroned once we throw in some AntiAliasing and Anisotropic filtering. Splinter Cell nVidia Specific AntiAliasing Safe to say it's a no-brainer here as Splinter Cell takes full advantage of 8xAA/8XAF settings equally at all resolutions with no performance hit. Time to see how the GeForce FX5900 fares under pressure& Next Page - Overclocking, IQ & Final Words Previous Page - Return to Castle Wolfenstein
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