Performance in Gaming Tests: Strategies

Age of Empires 3

The 8x SLI AA mode, not to mention 16x, is unavailable even for owners of two GeForce 7800 GTX cards. The results are of pure theoretical interest then. You can see that the game doesn’t run any faster on the system with more PCI Express lanes. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe is even a little slower than the A8N-SLI Premium, but the difference is within the measurement error range.

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War

It’s all like in the previous test, even though Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War makes wide use of high-resolution textures.