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Medal of Honor Pacific Assault is a huge epic title with excellent story line and cinematography. Combining literally thousands of man hours to get this game into retail, the Gainward Video Card plays this game title like a pro. At 1280 x 1024 and in game settings maxed out we average over 28 FPS and using 1024 x 768 was yielding over 35 FPS. While we couldn't test every mode under every setting this will be a very good idea of what to expect with a similiar configuration.
 
 
This is a very demanding title, even when maxed out, this game can bring the 6800Ultra to its knees. This is a great game and does run good under this card, but we found that this game title like others, forces 4xAA and 8xAF at high quality so adding AA & AF will drag the game to a stand still and is not recommended. I found that best settings was to leave the application controlled settings enabled and force the game to run them with the High Setting enabled.
This configuration seems to be the sweet spot for this game is it never dipped below 30 FPS the entire time I played Pacific Assault.
We all know that UT2004 plays well on NVIDIA hardware and using the 6600GT to play this title is no exception. UT2004 looks great using high details and playing under these conditions was fun and exciting. The 6600GT performs significantly better than the GeForce 5950 Ultra and playing this game shows that fact.
 
 
The Ultra/1960 GS GLH averaged approximately 58 FPS during the entire time we sampled the benchmarks under No AA and No AF. Now with the botmod benchmarks this card was pumping over 115FPS, but our graph is based on online gaming using FRAPS to sample 1 minute intervals during game play.
Under 4xAA & 8xAF things slowed down but the game play was still averaging 29 FPS and was very much smooth in game play than what the spikes and crests show on the graph. The eye candy was stepped up a notch but this game is enjoyable at any AA or AF setting to begin with.
At 1024 x 768 the game just sizzles, averaging over 70 FPS. While this is just a one minute sample, dont let that fool you, the game play is fast through out the entire map and game play.
Need I say more?
Yip, another review using FarCry, while I have played this title out and have used in it every single video card review to date, I decided what the heck and let's give it a go and see what the 6600GT can do for this title. Let's take a look:
 
 
I tested at 1280 x 1024 and averaged over 43 FPS in this configuration and had virtually no lag at all. The fire fight and intense battles where able to hold a decent FPS and proved to be able to handle this title with room to spare.
Adding the eye candy to this game took some hits to the over all FPS at this configuration I averaged 26 FPS with some taxing going on during the fight scenes, however this was just minimal and did not cause the game play to suffer that bad. For a $200.00 card this card performs well after remembering the fact it out performs my 5950Ultra costing $499.99! Holy Smokes!
With 74 FPS average, the game IQ looked great for the settings and was fast under this configuration. Nothing was slowing it down, the bigger fight scenes and up close action was super fast and furious and gave the impression this card runs at this configuration with ease.
At approximately 40 FPS average this game is looking and running good, the 3D effect is very smooth and realistic under this configuration and fight scenes never blinked or felt like a slide show. This is definitely a great performing card and for mid-level performance you cant beat it!
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XFX 9800GTX+ PCIe 512MB - Rev 01
