Game Benchmarks: World In Conflict
As a real-time strategy game, World in Conflict needs a lower sustainable frame rate to enjoy the game, compared to what you would want with a first-person shooter. This is because it’s not about careful aiming, but about careful planning. Having said that, we’d still like to see the highest performance possible for attractive visuals:
World in Conflict shows us pretty even frame rates across the board, suggesting it’s a platform-limited benchmark that isn’t as dependant on the graphics card for its performance. It looks like graphics don’t become as much of a factor until the highest 2560x1600 resolution. The good news is that even the GeForce 9600 GT cards offer performance comparable to that of the higher-end cards at 1920x1200. While the minimum frame rates look dismal, keep in mind that this number is captured during the demo’s nuclear explosion and subsequent detailed mushroom cloud. It doesn’t happen much during an actual game, but it is very difficult for the graphics cards to render.
With 4xAA enabled, we once again see the GeForce GTX 260 solutions separate themselves with higher performance than their lower-tier siblings. The GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GTS 250 cards all perform surprisingly closely.
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.