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 Gainward Ultra/750XP Golden Sample
The Red Devil
(Review by tide, May 13, 2002)
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Final Words

The Gainward Ultra/750XP shows even at high resolution and simultaneous antialiasing a very solid performance. Even Serious Sam Second Encounter runs totally smooth at 1600 x 1200 and high detail level.


The Ultra 750XP is certainly a quite decent overclocker. With some additional aeration, the ceiling can be staked even higher and with some more elaborate cooling, there would be a good chance to push things even higher, and I'll probably start playing around with a few different cooling solutions which will be topic of a separate article. Please keep in mind that all benchmark results posted here were achieved at stock settings without overclocking. In other words, there is enough margin for this card to push things quite a bit higher yet.

The problems at the 1600 x 1200 settings that occurred in almost all benchmarks can most likely be attributed to running only 128 MB of system memory in the test setup. With the amounts of graphics textures increasing with resolution, it is conceivable that we were simply running out of texture space, particularly, since the AGP aperture needs to be a contiguous space for most graphics cards including the GF4. That's certainly something to keep in mind when upgrading, the most powerful graphics card will not be able to unleash its full potential even with a high end CPU, if there is not enough memory available.

ALL in all, the Gainward Ultra/750XP is an extremely fast card with a superior bundle of hard and software. With respect to performance, Gainward offers an overclocking guarantee which is just the tip of the iceberg since the card clocks even better than that. What else could one wish for?

My personal conclusion: Aside from the professional graphics cards, it is going to be very hard to beat the performance of the Gainward Ultra/750XP Golden Sample

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