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All testing was done using a
clean installation of Windows XP Professional. For all
benchmarks we used nVidia's reference driver build 21.85.
Between each test, the benchmarking applications were shut
down and restarted, and V-Sync was disabled for all tests.
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| HotHardware's Test System |
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An Athlon
Machine |
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Common
Hardware:
1.4GHz AMD Athlon
(Thunderbird)
Epox 8K7A+ AMD 761 / VIA 686B
Hybrid (Latest BIOS)
2568MB Corsair PC2400
(8-8-8-2-5-2-2)
3COM 3C905-TX NIC
Hercules Game Theater XP
IBM 7200RPM 30GB HD x (2) -
RAID 0
Plextor UltraPlex 40Max
Adaptec AHA-2940 UWPro
Standard Floppy Drive
Via 4-in-1s v.4.33V
AMD Chipset Drivers (AGP
Miniport v5.22)
Operating
Systems / Software:
Windows XP Professional
DirectX 8.1
Video Cards:
Visiontek GeForce 3
MSI GF3 Starforce 822
Video
Drivers:
nVidia Reference Drivers
v21.85
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| Benchmarks - Video 2000 |
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MadOnion's Video
Test |
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MadOnion's
Video 2000 is specifically designed to evaluate the video
playback quality, performance and video features available
in modern graphics adapters.
VIDEO 2000:
The MSI Starforce 822 performed
very well in this test. Virtually all GeForce 3s score
between 2000 and 2300 in this test, placing the Starforce
822 at the upper end of the scale.
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| Benchmarks - 3DMark 2001 -
DirectX 8 |
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MadOnion's Finest
"Gaming" Benchmark |
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By now I'm sure you're all
itching to see how this baby performs in 3D, so let's get
started shall we?
First up we have another popular
test by MadOnion, 3D Mark 2001. Throughout the
remainder of this review, in all tests run at the MSI
Starforce 822's default clockspeed, we will be comparing it
to the Visiontek GeForce 3.
3D MARK 2001:
3D Mark 2001 performance was
excellent for both card, with a very slight advantage going
to the Visiontek GeForce 3 at the higher resolutions.
Both of these cards are clocked at the same speeds, 200MHz.
core and 460MHz. memory, so they should both perform the
same in every test.
Earlier in this review we
mentioned that our MSI Starforce 822 was highly
overclockable. We ran it through another round of 3D
Mark tests with the core cranked up to 260 MHz. and the
memory bumped to 561MHz.
The first word that came to mind
when I saw the overclocked score at 1600x1200 was, "Wow!"
With the MSI Starforce 822 overclocked we gained almost 1000
points at this resolution! If all of the Starforce
822s available are as overclockable as ours, there are going
to be some very happy tweakers out there!
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