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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."

CINEFX ENGINE - Powers cinematic effects beyond imagination. With advanced vertex and pixel shader capabilities, stunning and complex special effects are possible. In addition, increased horsepower delivers faster and smoother gameplay.

HIGH-PRECISION GRAPHICS - By combining the incredible dynamic range of today's state-of-the-art 3D motion pictures with 128-bit studio-precision colour, the GeForce FX GPUs bring you the industry’s best image quality for the most demanding applications.

NVIEW MULTI-DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY - The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience.

DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL (DVC) - Allows the user to adjust colour controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colours in all conditions. Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.

MICROSOFT DIRECTX® 9.0 OPTIMIZATIONS AND SUPPORT - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications.

OPENGL® 1.4 OPTIMIZATIONS AND SUPPORT - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all OpenGL applications.

HARDWARE MPEG-2 DECODER - Delivers full-frame, full-screen MPEG-2 video on your desktop.

DVI SUPPORT - Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays with up to 1600x1200 resolution.

350MHz RAMDAC - Supports QXGA displays with ergonomic refresh rates.

ARCHITECTED FOR CG - Ensures that the newest, cutting-edge special effects in applications will run flawlessly. Speeds up content creation so game developers can get their new games out to PC users faster than ever before.

UNIFIFED DRIVER ARCHITECTURE (UDA) - Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

GT LEGENDS LOW QUALITY 24 19 14 10 MEDIUM QUALITY 21 17 12 10 HIGH QUALITY 20 16 12 9 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 44 38 32 26 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 offers good performance with King Kong and was playable upto 1280x1024."

LEGO STAR WARS 120 120 88 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 352 343 295 226 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 74 52 35 25 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."

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