Test Setup and Extra InfoTest SetupStefan's Test Setup |
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CPU | Core i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz |
Cooling | Cogage True Spirit |
Mainboard | Asrock X58 Extreme |
Memory | G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI PI Series |
VGA | AXLE GeForce 210 512MB DDR2 Gainward Geforce GTS 250 Deep Green Gainward Geforce GT240 Inno3D Geforce GT240 Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 LP ATI Radeon HD 4550 ATI Radeon HD 4890 ATI Radeon HD 5770 ATI Radeon HD 5830 ATI Radeon HD 5450 ATI Radeon HD 5670 Sparkle Geforce GTX 470 Inno3D GeForce GTS 250 iChill |
Other | Power Supply : Antec True Power New 750W HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10 Case : Cooler Master HAF922 Case with 2 NB-Multiframe S-Series MF12-S3HS@1800RPM on the side
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With the help of the GPU-Z 0.4.6 utility, we can extract lots of information regarding the video card clocks,memory type, pixel and texture fill rate and so on:
I have used the Everest Ultimate Edition utility to find out the various pre-defined clocks and some more information regarding the GPU Code name, Part Number or BIOS Version:
The GTS 450 has the following CUDA capabilities:
To find out the IDLE and maximum temperatures, I have used the Furmark utility, with the Stability Test in
“Xtreme Burning mode” and let it run for about 15 minutes. To record the temperatures, the GPU-Z utility was used, thanks to its Sensors monitoring tab. The recorded room temperature at the time of testing was
24.0 degrees Celsius:
IDLEFull LoadAfter 15 minutes of stress testing, I was amazed to see how cool the chip remains, only
48 degrees Celsius.
On the CD that comes with the product, we can find other applications like
Badaboom,
Loiloscope or
vReveal:
The 3DMark Vantage scores were calculated by summing up the GPU and CPU subscores.Here are the Vantage subscores separately: