Abit IX38 Quad GT Motherboard

Author:	Jason Jacobs
Date:	2008.09.24
Topic:	Motherboards
Provider:	Abit
Manufacturer:	Abit

Abit IX38 Quad GT Motherboard

Performance Testing: Gameplay Benchmarks

Crysis

As we have mentioned in several of our reviews, Crysis is one of the most demanding games currently out. Expect this trend to continue with games requiring ever more beefy video adapters in order to get playable settings. The combination of the IX38 Quad GT, Intel E8500, and the Palit 4870 X2 provide for a very good platform in which to experience your favorite games. Performance in Crysis is very much bound to your video card and currently we feel that your best band for your dollar lay in the 48XX series of video cards. The 4870 x2 Has a total of 2GB of video memory and its performance scales very well at higher resolutions. We ran our tests a total of 4 times with the results below.

Crysis

High Settings, with 2x Anti-Aliasing : 1280 x 1024

Run

Min FPS

Max FPS

Avg. FPS

Overall Quality: High
Texture Quality: High
Objects Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Physics Quality: High
Shaders Quality: High
Volumetric Effects: High
Game Effects: High
Postprocessing: High
Particles Quality: High
Water Quality: High
Sound Quality: High

The IX38 Quad GT turns out very good results with only slight stutter during the heaviest of action/textures on the screen.

Half Life 2: Episode 2

Another demanding title that surrounds the player in expansive environments with very many object and complex physics. This title actually plays quite well on many platforms at lower settings. On our platform we will of course scale all the settings to maximum and see if we can bring it to its knees.

Half Life 2: Episode Two
High Settings, with 8x Anti-Aliasing : 1280 x 1024
Min FPS	Max FPS	Avg. FPS	Model Detail: High Texture Detail: Very High Shader Detail: High Water Detail: Refect All Shadow Detail: High Color Correction: Enabled Antialiasing: MSAA 8x Filtering Mode: Antistrophic 16x Wait for VSync: Enabled High Dynamic Range(HDR): Full Motion Blur: Enabled
68	152	123.45
Built-in Benchmark: Time Demo Results 6146 Frames rendered in 92.235 Seconds 123.45 FPS

As you can see the IX38 Quad GT turned in remarkable performance and totally playable frames per second at 1600 x 1200. There was no stutter at any point during the timedemo or within normal gameplay.

Call Of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4 features large expansive environments, realtime bullet physics, volumetric smoke effects, and much more. Its an extremely popular game that is almost entirely responsible for the end of Counter Strike as the predominant first person online shooter.

Call Of Duty 4
High Settings, with 4x Anti-Aliasing : 1280 x 1024
Min FPS	Max FPS	Avg. FPS	Anti-aliasing: 4X Shadows: Yes Specular Map: Yes Water Detail: Normal Ragdoll: Yes Bullet Impacts: Yes Model Detail; Normal Glow: Yes Depth of Field: Yes Number of Dynamic Lights: Normal Soften Smoke Edges: Yes
76	167	145.67

We recorded and ran our own time demo consisting of online gameplay with 16 other players in the map Crossfire. As you can see the IX38 Quad GT continues to turn out excellent gameplay at relatively good resolutions. We maximized all settings within the game as you can see below.

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