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CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8 REVIEW

"Club3D Deltachrome S8 review also featuring MSI GeForce4 Ti4200, XFX GeForce FX 5200, XFX GeForce MX 4000, GIGABYTE K8NS PRO and AMD Sempron 3100. Software used was Far Cry, Lego Star Wars and Quake 3 Arena."
CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8


GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD SEMPRON 3100
VIDEO CARD CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200 VTD8X
XFX GEFORCE FX 5200
XFX GEFORCE MX 4000
S3 DRIVER S3G COMBOCHROME v6.14.10.2021
NVIDIA DRIVER NVIDIA FORCEWARE v77.77
MOTHERBOARD GIGABYTE K8NS PRO
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0c


FAR CRY

LOW QUALITY

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S896
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200138
XFX GEFORCE FX 520074
XFX GEFORCE MX 400067

MEDIUM QUALITY

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S859
MSI GEFORCE4 TI420048
XFX GEFORCE FX 520016
XFX GEFORCE MX 400028

HIGH QUALITY

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S836
MSI GEFORCE4 TI420022
XFX GEFORCE FX 520024
XFX GEFORCE MX 400015

DELTACHROME S8 GEFORCE4 TI4200 GEFORCE FX 5200 GEFORCE MX 4000

COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 starts very strongly beating the Club3D Deltachrome S8 by 31%, however the Club3D Deltachrome S8 manages to fight back and beats the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 by between 19% then finally by 39% with high settings."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

LOW QUALITY

Texture Quality Low
Particle Count Low
Special Effects Low
Enviroment Quality Low
Shadow Quality Low
Water Quality Low
Lighting Quality Low

MEDIUM QUALITY

Texture Quality Medium
Particle Count Medium
Special Effects Medium
Enviroment Quality Medium
Shadow Quality Medium
Water Quality Medium
Lighting Quality Medium

HIGH QUALITY

Texture Quality High
Particle Count High
Special Effects High
Enviroment Quality High
Shadow Quality High
Water Quality High
Lighting Quality High

LEGO STAR WARS

MEDIUM

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S852
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200114
XFX GEFORCE FX 520049
XFX GEFORCE MX 4000

HIGH

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S850
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200105
XFX GEFORCE FX 520033
XFX GEFORCE MX 4000

ULTRA HIGH

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S844
MSI GEFORCE4 TI420071
XFX GEFORCE FX 520020
XFX GEFORCE MX 4000

DELTACHROME S8 GEFORCE4 TI4200 GEFORCE FX 5200 GEFORCE MX 4000

COMMENT - "Lego Star Wars requires a video card with some form of shaders which is why there are no results for the XFX GeForce MX 4000. You can clearly see that the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 is the best video card for Lego Star Wars, using medium quality settings the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 beats the Club3D Deltachrome S8 by 55%, using high quality settings by 53% and when using ultra high quality by a very impressive 39%."

QUAKE III ARENA

800x600

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8215
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200314
XFX GEFORCE FX 5200175
XFX GEFORCE MX 4000132

1024x768

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8181
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200279
XFX GEFORCE FX 5200112
XFX GEFORCE MX 400082

1280x1024

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8118
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200198
XFX GEFORCE FX 520067
XFX GEFORCE MX 400049

DELTACHROME S8 GEFORCE4 TI4200 GEFORCE FX 5200 GEFORCE MX 4000

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

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

COMMENT - "Quake 3 Arena is an older game and all of the video cards offer playable performance. However the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 offers a large performance increase over the Club3D Deltachrome S8 of between 32% to 41%."


QUAKE III ARENA ANISOTROPIC FILTERING

CLUB3D DELTACHROME S8

NO ANISOTROPIC181
4x ANISOTROPIC181
8x ANISOTROPIC179
16x ANISOTROPIC178

MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

NO ANISOTROPIC279
4x ANISOTROPIC205
8x ANISOTROPIC187
16x ANISOTROPIC

XFX GEFORCE FX 5200

NO ANISOTROPIC112
4x ANISOTROPIC109
8x ANISOTROPIC108
16x ANISOTROPIC

XFX GEFORCE MX 4000

NO ANISOTROPIC82
4x ANISOTROPIC80
8x ANISOTROPIC
16x ANISOTROPIC

NO ANISOTROPIC 4x ANISOTROPIC 8x ANISOTROPIC 16x ANISOTROPIC

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

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

COMMENT - "The Club3D Deltachrome S8 can use a wide range of different Anisotropic Filtering settings, the difference between having Anisotropic Filtering disabled and the highest 16x level is only a performance hit of 2%. The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 with Anisotropic Filtering enabled results in a large 33% performance hit."

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