Review - ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

Review by Edward Chang, call sign: Big_E

December 30, 2002

Test System:

-AMD Athlon Thoroughbred 1800+ @ 10x166MHz

-Default clock:    1533 MHz ACTUAL (11.5x133, 1.75v)

-EPoX 8K5A2+ VIA KT333 motherboard (Provided by EPoX)

-KingMax 512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM (Provided by KingMax) @ Turbo CL2.5 Setting

-Western Digital 80GB SE 7200 RPM UDMA 100 with 8MB Cache (Provided by Western Digital)

-Liteon 40X CDROM (Provided by Directron)

-Windows XP Professional

Video Cards:

-ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

-ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

-ATI Radeon 8500 128MB

-ATI Radeon 7500

-MSI GeForce4 Ti4600

-MSI GeForce4 Ti4200

-EVGA GeForce4 MX440

-Leadtek GeForce3 Original

Drivers:

-ATi Radeon 6.13.6166 for Radeon 7500

-ATi Radeon 6.13.6193 Catalyst for Radeon 8500 and 9000

-ATi Radeon 6.13.9178 Catalyst for Radeon 9700

-Nvidia Detonator 40.72 for GeForce Cards

-DirectX 8.1 Final

-VIA 4in1 4.43v Chipset Drivers

Benchmarking Software:

-MadOnion 3DMark2001 Second Edition Patched

-Unreal Tournament 2003 dm-antalus, dm-asbestos, ctf-citadel flybys

-Quake 3 Arena Quaver Demo

-Return to Castle Wolfenstein ixbtdemo

-DroneZMark

-Novalogic Comanche4 Demo

-Nvidia ChameleonMark