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CREATIVE GEFORCE3 TI200 REVIEW

"In this article we review the Creative GeForce3 Ti200 to technologically inferior Gainward GeForce4 MX 440."
CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI200


GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON XP 1700
VIDEO CARD CREATIVE GEFORCE3 TI200
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440
NVIDIA DRIVER DETONATOR v30.82
MOTHERBOARD ASUS A7V266-C
MEMORY 512MB CRUCIAL PC2100 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS 98 SE
DIRECTX VERSION v8.1

SERIOUS SAM

640x480

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI200117
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440115

800x600

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI200110
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440109

1024x768

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI20077
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 44074

1280x960

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI20052
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 44051

CREATIVE GEFORCE3 TI200 GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Quality Setting
Memphis Suburbs Demo
Huge Texture Size
Detailed Textures Enabled
Huge Shadowmap Size
Standard Lens Flare
No Wait Vertical Retrace
Wide Screen Disabled

COMMENT - "Serious Sam is another close result for the Creative GeForce3 Ti200 which can only manage to outperform the Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 by 1% to 4%."


STARTREK VOYAGER
ELITE FORCE

640x480

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI200134
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440132

800x600

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI200130
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440123

1024x768

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI200106
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 44094

1280x1024

CREATIVE  GEFORCE3 TI20090
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 44078

CREATIVE GEFORCE3 TI200 GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

High Quality Setting
Timedemo Demo0001
Geometric Detail High
Texture Detail High
Texture Quality 32bit
Trilinear Filtering
Simple Shaders Disabled
Compressed Textures Disabled
Light Flares Enabled
Wall Marks Enabled
Dynamic Lights Enabled
Identify Target Enabled
Sync Every Frame Disabled
Simple Items Disabled

COMMENT - "Star Trek Voyager Elite Force is well known for being cpu limited at 640x480 there is only a 2% performance difference between the Creative GeForce3 Ti200 and the Gainward GeForce4 MX 440. When we increase the resolution to 800x600 the Creative GeForce3 Ti200 is able to beat the Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 by 6%. Increasing the resolution to 1024x768 increased the performance difference to 12% and then at 1280x1024 the Creative GeForce3 Ti200 delivers a very good 14% performance increase."


OVERCLOCKING WITH
QUAKE III ARENA

800x600

CREATIVE  Ti200 (175/400)167
CREATIVE  Ti200 (210/440)170
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 (270/400)161
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 (305/440)165

1024x768

CREATIVE  Ti200 (175/400)144
CREATIVE  Ti200 (210/440)154
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 (270/400)132
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 (305/440)140

1280x1024

CREATIVE  Ti200 (175/400)126
CREATIVE  Ti200 (210/440)138
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 (270/400)114
GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 (305/440)124

CREATIVE GF3 Ti200 (175/400) CREATIVE GF3 Ti200 (210/440)
GAINWARD GF4 MX 440 (270/400) GAINWARD GF4 MX 440 (305/440)

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Compress Disabled
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometric Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering

COMMENT - "Both of the video cards gain some extra fps from overclocking but the results aren't amazing with a maximum of 12fps gained for the Creative GeForce3 Ti200 and 10fps for the Gainward GeForce4 MX 440."


CONCLUSION

GOOD POINTS
• DX 8.1 features make this video card more future proof than the GF4 MX 440.
• It's supplied with an impressive heatsink making it overclocking friendly.
• Installation was problem free and the video card ran very stable.
BAD POINTS
• TV output quality is only average and is inferior to the GF4 MX 440.

CREATIVE GEFORCE3 TI200 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - CREATIVE GEFORCE3 TI200 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - GAMES SOFTWARE AND FINAL RESULT

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