Our testing methods
As ever, we did our best to deliver clean benchmark numbers. All tests were run three times, and the results were averaged.

Motherboard

Abit AT7 MAX

Processor

AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Front-side bus

2x166MHz

Chipset

VIA KT333

North bridge

VT8367

South bridge

VT8233A

Memory size

512MB (2 DIMMs)

Memory type

CAS 2.5 PC2700 DDR SDRAM

Graphics

Siluro GF4 Ti4200 64MB
Siluro GF4 Ti4200 64MB OTES

Graphics driver

 NVIDIA 40.72

Storage

IBM 60GXP 40GB 7200RPM ATA/100 hard drive

Operating System

Windows XP Professional

I have one of Abit's vanilla Siluro GeForce4 Ti 4200 graphics cards left over from our GeForce4 Ti 4200 round-up, which seems like the most appropriate competitor for the OTES card. Both cards use the same GPU family, both have 64MB of memory, and both come from Abit, so the differences between the two are primarily isolated to the OTES hardware and the OTES card's faster memory chips.

We used the following versions of our test applications:

The test systems' Windows desktop was set at 1024x768 in 32-bit color at a 75Hz screen refresh rate. Vertical refresh sync (vsync) was disabled for all tests. Most of the 3D gaming tests used the high detail image quality settings in 32-bit color.

All the tests and methods we employed are publicly available and reproducible. If you have questions about our methods, hit our forums to talk with us about them.