NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS Battle Royal

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Contestants Overview

Here is a table to compare some of the major features.

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Header Cell - Column 0	Memory	Cooling	Video	Software DVD player
AOpen PA256 Pro	32 MBs of 6ns Infineon DDR at 333 MHz	Standard	Video-out	No
ELSA Gladiac	32 MBs of 6ns Infineon DDR at 333 MHz	Standard	Optional	Yes *
Leadtek WFGF2	32 MBs of 6ns Infineon DDR at 333 MHz	Excellent	Video-out	Yes

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i840 Configuration
CPU	Intel PIII 866
Motherboard (BIOS rev.)	OR840Intel OR840 (BIOS OR840700.86E.0219.803.0003081415)
Memory	2 Modules of 128 MB 800 MHz RDRAM
Network	Netgear FA310TX
i440BX Configuration
CPU	Intel PIII 600E @ 800 MHz
Motherboard (BIOS rev.)	MS BX Master (BIOS 5.1 031400)
Memory	1 Module of 128 MB Crucial PC133 CAS2 SDRAM
Network	Netgear FA310TX
Driver Information
AOpen PA256 Pro	4.12.01.0516
ELSA Gladiac	4.12.01.0200-0020
Reference GeForce 256 DDR	4.12.01.0516
Leadtek WFGF2	4.12.01.0516
Environment Settings
OS Version	Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A
DirectX Version	7
Quake 3 Arena	Retail versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0
Shogo	V2.14Advanced Settings = disable sound, disable music, disable movies, disable joysticks,enable optimized surfaces, enable triple buffering, enable single-pass multi-texturingHigh Detail Settings = enabledFortress Demo
3DMark 2000	16-bit settings = 16 bit textures, 16-bit Z-buffer, triple buffering32-bit settings = 32-bit textures, 24-bit Z-buffer, triple bufferingAll test were done with high detail only.

Seeing as most of the boards are based on the NVIDIA 5.16 driver, I don't expect to see much of a performance difference. Aside from vsync I've left all the default settings alone to represent what most people will see. This means fast writes are on and no other changes were made to tweak the visuals. I did also compare default settings of each manufacturer and found no major differences. Layout differences typically give more stability benefit than raw performance unless there is a major change to the design. I expect our scores to be very close among the competing boards.