Software

Point of View has supplied the Forceware 83.91 drivers. The current available drivers (version 84.21 were used) are available here.

But the CD has more than just the drivers. Once inserted, the following menu appeared:



Included are the drivers, DirectX 9.0C, VIVO WDM drivers, an old version of Adobe Acrobat, an Overclock Tool which is just the coolbits registry file and the manual in PDF format.

Test Systems

The following Test System was used to benchmark the GeForce 7900GTX:



The following Test System was used to benchmark all other cards:


All parts which were needed to get comparable benchmark results are identical, while the one has Mushkin and the other has Kingston memory, both were set at CL2 3-2-5 running at 400 MHz. Both were running nForce 4 SLI based mainboards.

Testing Methods

The benchmarks were run at a low resolution of 1024x768 with no AA and no AF and then with a high resolution of 1600x1200 with 4xAA and 16xAF. The game benchmarks were run with Benchemall, which is a program to manage automated benchmarking. The advantage of this are the already defined time demos for various games. Certain games like F.E.A.R have in-game benchmarks. In these cases the game benchmark system itself was used. The AA and AF levels were forced in the driver itself, to make sure the correct AA and AF setting were used in the benchmarks.