Also, all benchmarks were performed with a single NX6800-TD128E as well as two of them in an SLI configuration.

You can use this percentage calculator to play around with the various differences between any combination of single, SLI, default, or overclocked speed settings.

Half-Life 2 is CPU limited as well but it really depends on the area of the game. As you can see below, the at_c17_12 and at_coast areas basically flatline at 1024x768 while 3dnews_canal shows some substantial gains even at that low resolution.

Here is an example of the command line I used for the tests below:

hl2.exe -novid -nosound -width 1024 -height 768 -refresh 85 +r_fastzreject 1 +r_waterforcereflectentities 1 +mat_trilinear 1 +mat_antialias 4 +mat_forceaniso 8 +timedemoquit 3dnews_canal

Half-Life 2 Benchmark Results - 0xAA  8XAF - Single Card Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8N Neo4/SLI, 1GB RAM Application Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering Results are in Averages

Half-Life 2 Benchmark Results - 0xAA  8xAF - SLI Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8N Neo4/SLI, 1GB RAM Application Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering Results are in Averages

Half-Life 2 Benchmark Results - 4xAA  8xAF - Single Card Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8N Neo4/SLI, 1GB RAM Application Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering Results are in Averages

Half-Life 2 Benchmark Results - 4xAA  8xAF - SLI Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8N Neo4/SLI, 1GB RAM Application Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering Results are in Averages

Comparison of NV41 and NV42 -- NV41 Image Courtesy of GamePC.COM --

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