Game Benchmarks: Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Burnout Paradise is great fun to play, and for me, it has supplanted Need for Speed as the premier fun racing title on the PC. The game seems to have a Vsync feature that can’t be disabled even by overriding it in the graphics card driver. Fortunately, the game’s 3D engine is highly optimized so we’re able to apply 8x AA to really put these cards through the paces.
While the Burnout engine is absolutely gorgeous, it seems to take it easy on the graphics cards. Even the GeForce 9600 GT cards are easily handling 1920x1200 with 8xAA.
Let’s make things a lot more difficult by enabling the Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) feature. This will make the lighting model a lot more realistic, but will give us a massive performance hit:
With SSAO enabled, this is a different story entirely, instantly making the game incredibly difficult for these cards to cope. The GeForce 9600 GT cards can’t handle it at any of our tested resolutions.
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.