Introducing Galaxy’s GTS 450 SuperOverclock
S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Call of Pripyat is the third game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. All of these games have non-linear storylines which feature role-playing game elements. In these games, the player assumes the identity of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.; an illegal artifact scavenger in “The Zone” which encompasses about 30 square kilometers. It is the location of an alternate reality story surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant after another (fictitious) explosion.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Call of Pripyat features “a living breathing world” with highly developed NPC creature AI. Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully intregrated. Call of Pripyat is also compatible with DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1. It uses the X-ray 1.6 Engine one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tesselation– a Shader model 3.0 & 4.0 graphics engine featuring HDR, parallax and normal mapping, soft shadows, motion blur, weather effects and day-to-night cycles.
Here are the settings we used for our DX11 cards for 1440×900 and 1680×1050:
Now on to the benchmarks at 1440×900 and note that 8800 GTX is on the DX10 pathway which is a far less demanding pathway and less visually rich than the DX11 that the newer video cards use:
Next we test at 1920×1200 and remember that our DX11 cards not only work harder, they produce better visuals than the 8800 GTX DX10 card and also beat it performance wise. Here not only the stock GTS 450 solidly beats the HD 5750, but you can enable 2xAA and still be faster than the Radeon without AA. The Galaxy SOC version is solidly faster than the reference version which translates to a better minimum framerate.
We note the same thing as before including great SLI scaling. Let’s check out 1920×1080 and add 2xAA:
There is no surprise that the GTX 480 makes a clean sweep of these benches. What is surprising is that the SLI’d GTS 450s again beat HD 5870.
It’s a phenomenal review!! I loved how you compared it with a 5750 and my old 8800GTX, plus how you did 450’s in SLI versus 5870 and GTX 480. And the fully-rounded arsenal of games is icing on the cake!
Awesome review, very cool that you added 8800GTX. I was considering swapping mine out for the 450 originally.
i used the mother board MSI 880GM-E43 and A video card GTS 450 my question is what power supply should we used the 600W or 800W pls help me coz got problem in my video card the fan run slowly i just buy it now i used 600w power supply but my game got black screen everytime i play after 2minuts
This is a question best asked and answered in our forums:
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However, either PSU is probably sufficient if they are of reasonable quality and not defective. The card’s fan speed is variable, depending on the temperatures. Use Galaxy’s Xtreme HD Tuner or EVGA precision tool to monitor temperatures.
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