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ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer: Extremely Silent, Extremely Hot (page 13)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov

[ 10/19/2005 | 10:40 AM ]

Painkiller: Battle out of Hell

In low resolutions all testing participants perform almost equally fast, however, when we switch to eye candy mode with FSAA and anisotropic filtering the game turns out more sensitive to the efficiency of the onboard graphics memory subsystem, especially in 1600x1200 and up. ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer leaves the reference GeForce 6600 GT behind in no time showing up to 25% performance advantage in the heaviest game mode and running neck and neck with the RADEON X800 GT. The overclocked Silencer gets beyond any competition. Note that the game is not very resource hungry and even the minimum results we obtained during this test session doesn’t fall below the 65fps limit, which is more than enough for comfortable gameplay.