Comparisons and Test System Setup
Both the ASUS GeForce GTS 250 Dark Knight edition and the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Vapor cards are really more about better-than-standard cooling offerings that out-of-the-box overclocking, leaving the customer to pursue the avenue of clock speed increases on their own.
ASUS GeForce GTS 250 DK 512MB
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Vapor 512MB
For our benchmarks today we are going to be comparing both the ASUS and Sapphire cards to the recently released Radeon HD 4770 card and the 1GB version of the GeForce GTS 250. The ASUS GTS 250 DK 512MB card will sell for about $130 while the Sapphire HD 4850 Vapor 512MB card goes for about $135
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Test System Setup |
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CPU |
Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67 GHz
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Motherboards |
ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 + nForce 200
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Memory |
Corsair 3 x 2GB DDR3-1600
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB
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Sound Card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value |
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Video Card |
ASUS GeForce GTS 250 DK 512MB
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Vapor 512MB AMD Radeon HD 4770 512MB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB |
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Video Drivers |
NVIDIA: 182.08
AMD: Catalyst 9.4 |
| Power Supply | PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200w
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DirectX Version |
DX10
/ DX9c
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Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit |
Our thanks go out to Corsair for the memory for our test bed, to PC Power and Cooling for the 1200w beast of a PSU for the system and to ASUS for the P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard.
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