The Magnificent Seven: GeForce3 Board Round-up

Test Methodology And Configuration

We ran two parallel testing platforms - one was an Athlon 1200 system and the other was a Pentium 4 platform clocked at 1500 MHz. Note: these benchmarks are not intended as a comparison between two competing CPUs.

The benchmarks focus on the graphics cards. We have published results obtained with the Athlon and the Pentium 4 for every category.

We pretty much limited our resolution settings to 1024x768 and the real bandwidth-chomper 1600x1200. The only time 1600x1200 wasn't possible was during the 3DMark tests. In their stead, we've listed results obtained with 1280x1024.

In this test we used factory-supplied drivers, i.e. the manufacturers' drivers and not the NVIDIA reference driver. Anyone wanting to use the NVIDIA driver will probably lose the manufacturer's add-on tabs.