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Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Thursday, September 30, 2010
Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 3 is a game set sometime in the future that is all about killing. There's no real storyline or singleplayer mode. What UT3 lacks in story, it makes up for in an all-around great gaming experience. The multiplayer is second to none and happens to be a great LAN Party game.
For benchmarking, all graphics settings were turned up to the highest setting. V-Sync and SmoothFrames was disabled to get the maximum gaming frames per second. Post-processing was turned up to intense for a super awesome gaming experience. The level used for the benchmarks is CarbonFire which is loaded with fun loving bots with great one liner comments.
Some games are very responsive to changes in clock speed while others do not. It would seem that UT3 falls into the latter category and posts only a minimal boost in framerate at the 1680 x 1050 resolution. The interesting thing to note on this chart is where Gigabyte's GTS 450 falls in relation to the other cards on the list, their framerates, and 60+FPS playability factor.
