System Setup and Notes
The PowerColor Radeon X1300 HyperMemory 2 was benchmarked on the same A8R-MVP (ATI RD480 + ULi M1575), AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 1GiB system as the X1300 PRO and X1600 XT were recently.While it's not quite the system an X1300 HyperMemory board will find itself in, it helps us match it up to X1300 PRO and removes the system (as much as is possible at least) as a possible bottleneck.
Interestingly the board shipped with a 450MHz BIOS and a CD with flash tools to update the BIOS to the 600MHz shipping one. All retail examples will come with the very same BIOS, so there's no need to flash yourself the same way we did.
Hardware
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| Processor(s) | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHz, single-core, 1MiB L2, Clawhammer |
| Mainboard(s) | ASUS A8R-MVP ATI RD480 Crossfire ULi M1575 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MiB G.Skill F1-3200DSU2-1GBLE |
| Memory Timings | 2.5-4-4-8 @ 400MHz, 1T |
| BIOS Version | 0402 |
| Disk Drive | 80GB Western Digital PATA |
| Graphics Card(s) | PowerColor Radeon X1300 HyperMemory 2 ATI Radeon X1300 PRO ATI Radeon X1600 XT |
| Graphics Driver | CATALYST 6.2 BETA |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, SP2, 32-bit |
| Core Logic Driver(s) | ULi M1575 Chipset Driver V1.0.5.2a |
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Notes
The format of the graphs is the same throughout this article. The line plots are the baseline scores without antialiasing or anisotropic texture filtering applied, the column plots the values with AA and AF applied.Driver defaults were used throughout, and stock clocks were used for all cards. If in-game controls could be used for both antialiasing and anisotropic texture filtering, they were, otherwise the driver was used to force the required levels (if applicable and the game allowed it without rendering errors). Tested resolutions were 1024x768 and 1280x1024.
Game tests were run a minimum of three times at each setting, and the median value reported. In the case of manual 'run-through' testing with FRAPS, three consecutive runs that produced repeatable results, after further analysis, were used. If values weren't part of a repeatable set, they were discarded and obtained again.
If you have any questions about our testing methods, please feel free to ask at any time in the HEXUS.community.
