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GEFORCE PCX 5900 PERFORMANCE

"Powered by the GeForce PCX 5900 GPU this video card uses PCI-Express, Directx 9.0 and has 128MB DDR memory using a 256-bit memory interface. The original GeForce 5900 was a high price video card produced for the high-end market, Nvidia later released a cheaper to produce version of the GeForce 5900 called the GeForce 5900 XT which was clocked slightly slower than the GeForce 5900 while retaining the important features of the GeForce 5900 like the 256bit memory interface. Although you would expect the GeForce PCX 5900 to offer compariable performance to the GeForce 5900 the GeForce PCX 5900 is clocked quite abit slower and will offer performance more like the GeForce 5900 XT. For this review we have benchmarked using 23 games including 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Aurora Watching, Chronicles of Riddick, Codename Panzers Phase 2, Comanche4, Delta Force Extreme, Earth 2160, Far Cry, GT Legends, King Kong, Lego Starwars, Quake 3, Quake 4, Scooter War3z, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2, Trackmania Sunrise, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War, World Racing 2 and Xpand Rally."
NVIDIA GEFORCE PCX 5900

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON64 3000
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA GEFORCE PCX 5900
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v81.98
MOTHERBOARD ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA 2
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0c

GT LEGENDS

LOW QUALITY

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1024x76819
1280x102414
1600x120010

MEDIUM QUALITY

800x60021
1024x76817
1280x102412
1600x120010

HIGH QUALITY

800x60020
1024x76816
1280x102412
1600x12009

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "I was shocked when I saw the poor performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 with GT Legends, GT Legends is totally unplayable with the GeForce PCX 5900 at all resolutions!"

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

LOW QUALITY

Vehicle Detail Low
Circuit Detail Low
Special Effects Low
Shadows Low
Track Distance Normal

MEDIUM QUALITY

Vehicle Detail Medium
Circuit Detail Medium
Special Effects Medium
Shadows Medium

HIGH QUALITY

Vehicle Detail Full
Circuit Detail Full
Special Effects Medium
Shadows Full

KING KONG

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1024x76838
1280x102432
1600x120026

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 offers good performance with King Kong and was playable upto 1280x1024."

LEGO STAR WARS

MEDIUM QUALITY120
HIGH QUALITY120
ULTRA HIGH QUALITY88

MEDIUM QUALITY HIGH QUALITY ULTRA HIGH QUALITY

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 has no problems at all running Lego Starwars at all quality settings."

QUAKE 3 ARENA

800x600352
1024x768343
1280x1024295
1600x1200226

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 has no problems running Quake 3 Arena at a very playble level."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

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

QUAKE 4

800x60074
1024x76852
1280x102435
1600x120025

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Fullscreen Enabled
Vertical Sync Disabled
Bump Maps Enabled
Shadows Disabled
Special Effects Enabled
Specular Disabled
Antialiasing Disabled

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 offers playable performance with Quake 4 upto 1280x1024."

GEFORCE PCX 5900 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - GEFORCE PCX 5900 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - DELTA FORCE EXTREME, EARTH 2160 AND FAR CRY
PAGE 3 - KING KONG, LEGO STAR WARS AND QUAKE 4
PAGE 4 - SCRAPLAND, SERIOUS SAM 2 AND SCOOTER WARZ
PAGE 5 - TRACKMANIA SUNRISE AND TRIBES VENGEANCE
PAGE 6 - DAWN OF WAR, WORLD RACING AND XPAND RALLY

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