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Test System Setup

Our test systems for this review were setup as below:

Intel P4 2.8Ghz chip
AVC Sunflower P4 Cooler
MSI 648Max motherboard
512MB Corsair PC3500 Memory
or 512MB OCZ PC3500 Memory
Seagate 120GB ATA133 Barracuda ST3100
WinXP with SP1

Test results for the three 4200-8X cards are compared against results from a RADEON 9500PRO, a non-8X Ti4200, and a couple of other cards to give some perspective.

Tests Run:

Comanche Bench
Unreal Tournament 2003
Quake III
3dmarks 2001SE
Spec Viewperf 7.0

Test Results

Quake III Arena:

We always like to start off with the Q3A benchmarks because they're easy to run, almost everybody can run it, and everybody is so familiar with the results. The 4200-8X cards beat out the non-8X 4200 card here, but their lead is not something you will see in many of the other tests. Also, as you can well see, our caveat about keeping in mind that Abit has overclocked their core clock by 25Mhz and memory clock by 2x25Mhz bears merit here, with the Abit Siluro 4200-8X OTES card outperforming even a Ti4600 card. Surprisingly, the plain-jane AOpen Aeolus outperforms the more fancy MSI card, though you will see this trend repeating itself...