The Test

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s) AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.33GHz
Motherboard(s) ASUS A7M266
Memory 128MB PC2100 Corsair DDR SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

Absolute Multimedia Morpheus GeForce3 64MB
ASUS V1700 Deluxe GeForce3 64MB
Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB
MSI Starforce 822 GeForce3 64MB initial
MSI StarForce 822 GeForce3 64MB retail

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

NVIDIA Detonator 3 12.10

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

Croteam Serious Sam - Karnak Peaceful Night Coop
AquaMark (Aquanox Benchmark)

For this review we have only included a limited number of benchmarks that model the performance of the cards under all games. Our reason for doing this is because nearly all the GeForce3 cards we have looked at perform identically, including the MSI Starforce 822. For complete performance results, please see our Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB review, where the MSI card and others are put through our complete tests.

Note that the first MSI StarForce 822 is labeled as "initial" and the new card labeled"retail" in the following graphs.

The Drivers OpenGL Performance - Serious Sam
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