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Foxconn WinFast 6150K8MA Mainboard 

Shifting gears to our gaming benchmarks, we have decided to use Half Life 2, Quake 4 and Far Cry.  Half Life 2 starts the trio with a custom demo recorded at 1024 x 768 resolution.  All details were set to max with Anisotropic Filtering set to 8x and Full Screen Antialiasing set to 4x as an average real world setting.

Regardless of talk you hear about other games, I still think HL2 is one of the most demanding.  Of the three games we chose to test out the Foxconn, Half Life 2 is the only one that the onboard video simply could not run.

Moving on to Quake 4, let's take a look at some OpenGL graphics based on the Doom3 engine.  Settings were as follows; resolution 1024 x 768 with the image quality set to "High" on another custom demo with OCC-Profit getting hammered.

Nice numbers from both the Foxconn and the comparison board with the exception of the twin pipeline onboard GPU.  But we can't criticize it being that this GPU is geared for functions other than high end gaming. 

Last up is Far Cry (Brian's fav) from the Research facility map with resolution set to 1024 x 768, details all maxed out and Anisotropic Filtering set to 8x and FSAA set to 4x.

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - What you get and the board
Pg 3 - More of the board
Pg 4 - BIOS
Pg 5 - Testing setup and PC Magazine benchmarks
Pg 6 - Super Pi and SiSoft Sandra 2005 Pro
Pg 7 - Half Life 2, Quake 4, Far Cry benchmarks
Pg 8 - Overclocking and Conclusion


 



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