Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H Motherboard

Testing:

The game tests that we use are as follows:

• Far Cry
• F.E.A.R.
• Flight Simulator X
• Call of Duty 2
• Quake 4
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted

First up we have Far Cry. This game makes extensive use of pixel shaders and features Polybump normal mapping technology to increase character details.

We will be using the Hardware OC Benchmarking Utility version 1.8 with the following settings.

• Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
• Level: Volcano, demo: Volcano.tmd
• Pixel shader: model 2.0b
• Anti-aliasing: 4×
• Anisotropic filtering: 8×
• HDR: disabled
• Geometry Instancing: disabled
• Normal-maps compression: disabled