NVIDIA Quad-SLI with the ASUS EN9800GX2

Name: NVIDIA Quad-SLI with the ASUS EN9800GX2 - Page 5
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 09:00 AM EDT

Unreal Tournament 3

DirectX Gaming Performance

Unreal Tournament 3

If you're a long-time PC gamer, the Unreal Tournament franchise should need no introduction. UT's fast paced action and over the top weapons have been popular for as long as Epic has been making the games. For these tests, we used the latest addition to the franchise, Unreal Tournament 3. The game doesn't have a built-in benchmarking tool, however, so we enlisted the help of FRAPS here. These tests were run at resolutions of 1,920 x 1,200 and 2,560 x 1,600 with no anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering enabled, but with the UT3's in game graphical option set to their maximum, with color correction enabled.

Unreal Tournament 3 did scale on the ASUS EN9800GX2 Quad-SLI setup, but not by a very large degree. The Radeons on the other hand did very well here, and bested the Quad-SLI setup at the higher resolution. We did have a problem, however, with the quad-CrossFireX configuration. No matter what we tried, the game would crash at 1920x1200. But curiously, it worked fine at 2560x1600.

Tags: Nvidia, Asus, sli, X2, 980, N9, id

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com