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nVidia GeForce GTX 285 Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 9th Mar 2009 |
| Manufacturer | nVidia |
| Price | £304.35 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £350.00 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersWhile it hasn't been a huge commercial success and its gameplay is far from revolutionary, the graphical fidelity of Crysis is still second to none and as such it's still the ultimate test for a graphics card. With masses of dynamic foliage, rolling mountain ranges, bright blue seas, and big explosions, this game has all the eye-candy you could wish for and then some.
We test using the 64-bit version of the game patched to version 1.1 and running in DirectX 10 mode. We use a custom timedemo that's taken from the first moments at the start of the game, wandering around the beach. Surprisingly, considering its claustrophobic setting and graphically rich environment, we find that any frame rate above 30fps is about sufficient to play this game. All in-game settings are set to high for our test runs and we test with both 0xAA and 4xAA.
Things are off to a good start here with the GTX 285 (and its overclocked Asus version) comfortably beating its predecessor and all other single-GPU cards. It's still a fair way off the pace of the dual-GPU cards but is impressive stuff nonetheless.
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John said on 10th March 2009
Ed said on 10th March 2009
Well, you've got plenty of options. Anything rated at over about 500W should be fine. It'll need at least two six-pin PCI-Express connectors (most brands have them nowada... more
Ed said on 10th March 2009
@basicasic
Unfortunately I don't have the card anymore so can't take it home and try it in a truly silent environment. It's certainly as quiet a fan ... more
Gennady said on 28th July 2009
The price shown here is a bit high, i found it on overclockers for 230 Pounds, sorry to bother, i do know that this review was written on 9th March, but as i was searching for revi... more
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Can you tell me what psu is needed to use this gfx?