Pictured below is the test system with the Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT i-ChiLL installed. The graphics card appears at the bottom of the picture as the enclosure is a Lian Li V1000, which has the motherboard positioned in a direction opposite most enclosures.

Mixed-Vendor SLI

Having MSI's NX8800GTX graphics card on-hand was a bonus. The NX8800GT is the top-most graphics card in the case and a Sound Blaster Audigy is sandwiched in-between. In addition to providing benchmark results from the Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT i-ChiLL, I also paired it with the NX8800GT to form a mixed-vendor SLI configuration.

Hardware and Operating System

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 - 3.0GHz Conroe Core - 4MB L2 Cache - 1333MHz FSB
• BFG nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
• 4GB Corsair XMS PC8500 DDR2 SDRAM 5-5-5-18-2T @ 400MHz
• Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
• PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW-SR Power Supply
• Lian Li V1000 Enclosure
• Dell 3007WFP LCD Monitor
• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 / DirectX 9.0c

Graphics Cards, Drivers, and Driver Settings

• Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT iChill - 700MHz Core / 1500MHz Shader / 1000MHz Memory (2000MHz Effective)
• MSI NX8800GT - 660MHz Core / 1650MHz Shader / 950MHz Memory (1900MHz Effective)
• ForceWare Beta 169.28 - Windows XP
• 32-Bit Color
• Vsync Disabled
• 60Hz Refresh Rate
• High Quality Texture Filtering
• Gamma Correct Antialiasing

Test Applications

• BioShock
• Call of Duty 4
• Crysis
• Doom 3
• F.E.A.R.
• Oblivion
• STALKER
• The Witcher
• World in Conflict Demo

Notes

• Antialiasing was set to "Override any application setting" in the driver for Oblivion.
• Anisotropic filtering was set to 8x in the driver for Oblivion.

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