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PNY GTX-285 Performance Edition (+ SLI 285 Testing)
Date: 2009-02-11 | Author: Mark Taliaferro
Company: PNY
| Supplied by: Bernadette
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TESTING & METHODOLOGY
To test the PNY GTX-285 we did a fresh load of Vista 64. We loaded all the latest drivers for the Asus P6T Deluxe motherboard, downloaded the latest drivers for the GPU and applied all patches and updates to the OS. Once we had everything updated and the latest drivers installed we got down to installing our test suite.
Once we had everything up to snuff, we loaded our testing suite, applied all the patches to the games, and checked for updates on 3Dmark06 because it was crashing on load. We found that some update we'd done had knocked out the OpenAl portion of 3Dmark06's install. We downloaded the OpenAl standalone installer and ran that which fixed our crash in Vista 64 (Ultimate). Then, we went ahead and installed 3Dmark Vantage, stoked up a pot of coffee and we were ready to run. We ran each test at least three times and report the average of the three test runs here. Some runs were made more than three times (the coffee didn't get done quickly enough), then we cloned the drive using Acronis to protect ourselves from any little overclocking accidents that might happen. Testing was done at the default clock speed of the GPU's tested unless otherwise noted.
Test Rig
| Test Rig "Quadzilla" |
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| Case Type | Top Deck Testing Station |
| CPU | Intel Core I7 965 Extreme (3.74 GHz 1.2975 Vcore) |
| Motherboard | Asus P6T Deluxe (SLI and CrossFire on Demand) |
| Ram | Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 (9-9-9-24 1.65v) 6 GB Kit |
| CPU Cooler | Thermalright Ultra 120 RT (Dual 120mm Fans) |
| Hard Drives | Patriot 128 GB SSD |
| Optical | Sony DVD R/W |
| GPU Tested | PNY GTX-285 Performance Edition XFX GTX-285 XXX BFG GTX-295 Asus GTX-295 EVGA GTX-280 (2) XFX 9800 GTX+ Black Edition BFG GTX-260 MaxCore Leadtek GTX-260 Drivers for Nvidia GPU's 181.20 Palit HD Radeon 4870X2 Sapphire HD Radeon 4870 512MB Diamond HD Radeon 4879 1 GB Sapphire HD Radeon 4850 Toxic Drivers for ATI GPU's 8.12 |
| Case Fans | 120mm Fan cooling the mosfet CPU area |
| Docking Stations | Thermaltake VION |
| Testing PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower 1200 Watt |
| Legacy | Floppy |
| Mouse | Razer Lachesis |
| Keyboard | Razer Lycosa |
| Gaming Ear Buds |
Razer Moray |
| Speakers | Logitech Dolby 5.1 |
| Any Attempt Copy This System Configuration May Lead to Bankruptcy | |
Synthetic Benchmarks & Games
| Synthetic Benchmarks & Games | |
| 3DMark06 v. 1.10 | |
| 3DMark Vantage | |
| Company of Heroes v. 1.71 | |
| Crysis v. 1.2 | |
| World in Conflict Demo | |
| FarCry 2 | |
| Crysis Warhead | |
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