"...if
you are ready to embrace reality...
...choose the red pill."
System Specs:
I
decided to move video card testing to my main rig so that
there is no chance the card's performance will be affected
by any system bottlenecks. Because of this there won't be
any other cards to compare the Morpheus to but we'll be
adding more tests in this rig soon.
-
2 x AMD
Athlon MPs @ 1.2 GHz
-
-
-
512 (2
x 256mb) of Crucial
PC2100 ECC & Registered
- U160 SCSI 10krpm IBM
UltraStar
- Hercules
GameTheatre XP
- Aafreey 56x CD-Rom Drive
- Windows 2000 SP2
- NMB 460w P.S.
Drivers:
- Detonator 12.90's unofficial
- Detonator 4 drivers
Benchmarks:
- 3DMark 2001
- Quake III Arena Demo (time
demo 1)
- SiSoft Sandra
Background:
The first video card
I purchased separately for a system was the Voodoo3 3000
by 3dfx. As most if not
all of you already know 3dfx has been acquired by nVidia
after years of rivalry, but even before that happened I
made a move to the GeForce2 after a friend spent days convincing
me that it was much better than the Voodoo cards. So when
I heard that a company who supposedly acquired 3dfx's employees
was teaming up with Absolute and releasing a GeForce3 based
card I instantly knew that it was a must-have.
Even though at the
time it was just a rumor it has since been confirmed that
3DPower did in fact
acquire about 40% of 3dfx's employees. The release of this
Absolute/3DPower card was not as publicized in the United
States as some other GeForce3 cards out in the market but
the price/performance ratio of the Morpheus is sure to make
it a well known card in the near future. But first we have
to see how this expensive piece of Si holds up in our tests.
Card Specifications
:
Processor
NVIDIA GeForce
3 graphics engine @ 200MHz
1x/2x/4x AGP with
fast writes
64Mb 3.8ns Hi-speed
DDR 460MHz SDRAM (Double Data Rate)
Built-in 350MHz
Maximum
Resolution
2048 x 1536 pixels
60Hz to 240Hz
ICE-Cube©
cooling fan
TV-Output
Option
S-video
PAL + NTSC support
Conexant Bt869
TV-Encoder
Lightspeed Memory
Architecture
nFiniteFX engine technology
High resolution antialiasing (HRAA)
2nd Generation Hardware Transform and Lighting
AGP 4x texture support
Alpha-Blending
Trilinear and 8-tap
Anisotropic filtering
Outrageous 3D Graphics card
Install / Driver CD-ROM manuals.
Icewind Dale full version game
MDK2 full version game
Soldiers of fortune full version game
Software Choice© CDROM
