In our last group of benches we are going to compare the HIS X850XT iTurbo against itself.  4xFSAA/8xAF versus 6xFSAA/16xAF to be exact.  If you are going to turn the effects on, max em' out.  As my grandfather said, "If you're gonna be a bear, be a Grizzly!"

The performance hit really doesn't hit hard until the resolution gets way up there.  A quick note about our benchmarking; we don't run batch files then leave and come back into the room half an hour later here.  We WATCH the demos run, scanning for artifacts, lagging or other anomalies that may creep out.  None did with the HIS iTurbo card in benchmarking.  In actual gameplay, with the eye candy maxed at 1600 resolution we did run into some rare and I mean RARE but perceptible events of lag in Half Life 2 when the action was thickest.