Pentium II 266 (running at
different speeds)
ABit BX6 mainboard
64 MB PC100 SDRAM
Real3D Starfighter (AGP)
Diamond Monster Sound MX200
Refresh rate set at 60 Hz
Windows 95 OSR 2.1
Fresh install of all software (no tweaking)
CPU clock speed: 336
MHz (112 MHz x 3)
640x480
800x600
Forsaken NUKE
500%
78.1
67.2
Quake II Demo1
45.0
31.8
Quake II Crusher
26.2
24.3
Real3D
Starfighter
Velocity
4400
Viper
V330
Dark Blue
Green
Red
Forsaken-640x480
150
79
78
Quake II Demo1 -640x480
64.1
44.6
45.0
Quake II Crusher 640x480
36.1
26.4
26.2
Forsaken-800x600
104
75
67
Quake II Demo1 -800x600
57.2
35.4
31.8
Quake II Crusher -800x600
34.5
25.8
24.3
CPU clock speed: 233
MHz (66 MHz x 3.5)
640x480
800x600
Forsaken NUKE
500%
67.5
62.1
Quake II Demo2
35.6
28.2
Quake II Crusher
16.4
16.0
The performance of the Starfighter
is nowhere near the newest video cards, but for its
age the I740 based card is doing fairly well. As long
as you plan on running games at 640x480 and have a
P2 300 or faster, it should be more than adequete.
Visual Quality
The visual quality is very good
on Direct 3D and after a little image tweaking in
Quake II, the quality is close to TNT. Here's a screenshot
comparison for you:
