Game Benchmarks: Crysis
Crysis can be a brutal benchmark, even on today’s most powerful solutions. Let’s start the benchmarks with some playable detail settings, at Crysis’ medium detail level:
Crysis is demonstrating definite improvements with higher clock speeds. At this detail setting, it looks like the 9600 GT-based cards can handle 1680x1050, the GTS 250 cards can handle 1920x1200, and the GTX 260 cards can muster 2560x1600 playable performance.
Let’s crank it up to high details and see what happens:
At High quality settings, we really wouldn’t want to use any of these cards for playable Crysis performance (except maybe the GTX 260 cards at 1650x1080).
Let’s move on to a title that’s much easier on the graphics sub-system: Left 4 Dead.
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Would you run the first passive card with negative air pressure?
@mi1ez. Not too sure how yours is set up. But for most living rooms I'm sure the average Ikea or Argos T.V. cabinet wouldn't have adequate airflow for that. Getting waffted with heat in the summer wouldn't be my choice.
I don't have a passive card. I was just curious really given what they said about the card drawing cool air from outside the case.
The MSI overclocking panel appears to claim the fan is at 600,000rpm!
I wonder if there's an option on the Asus ENGTS250 Dark Knight card that allows you to run the cooler passive when idle? Seems like the heatsink could pull that off easily, doesn't it? It would be nice to have silent card when in 2D
so the question is can you control RPM of the fan and if so, can you put it to 0% when idle?
Well I just bought the Asus ENGTS250 card based on this review, and not only is the memory clocked slower at 2000Mhz DDR, the card does not slow it's clocks in 2D mode leading to substantially higher power consumption at idle.
I'm not impressed.