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MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 Graphics Card: A Jewel of HD 2600 XT Carats (page 14)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 10/19/2007 | 09:16 AM ]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The game loses much of its visual appeal without HDR. Although some gamers argue that point, we think TES IV looks best with enabled FP HDR and test it in this mode.

The MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 outperforms the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS in both minimum and average speed, and provides a good level of comfort at resolutions below 1600x1200, at least in closed environments.

Each graphics card is naturally slower in open scenes of the game, but the MSI card isn’t much worse than the GeForce 8600 GTS even then. Its minimum speed, and that of the other mainstream graphics cards, is below 20fps at 1600x1200, so we recommend you to limit the resolution to 1280x1024.