Game Benchmarks: Fallout 3
The incredibly-popular Fallout 3 is based on the same 3D engine as its predecessor, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Back in the day, Oblivion crippled contemporary gaming systems, but things have come a long way since then. Is the new, updated 3D engine in Fallout as demanding on new hardware?
The good news is that you can realize playable performance in Fallout with any of these cards at 1920x1200. Even the 9600 GT-based solutions can offer passable performance at 2560x1600, since Fallout 3 isn’t a "twitchy" game like most first-person shooters.
Let’s amp things up with 4xAA and 15xAF:
Here we see the GeForce GTX 260 cards justify their higher price tags, with playable performance all the way up to 2560x1600. The less-expensive models struggle to keep up.
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.