VR Features

During the course of benchmarking, we wanted to compare the Geforce 8200 to its predecessor, the Geforce 7050. Unfortunately, the latter does not support the Phenom 9500 Quad-core processor that we intended to use. Hence, we decided on pitting the latest IGPs from both ATI and NVIDIA against each other. In this review, we will see how the Geforce 8200 fares against the AMD/ ATI RS780 IGP. Also, as this is a beta board, there are still issues to iron out.

With the Phenom, both the platforms had issues with all the Performance Rams we normally use in reviews. A member in our lair sacrificed 2 sticks out of a quartet of 2GB OCZ value-ram sticks from his personal rig to get this review going. Although the rams would do DDR2-800, CL4 on the RS780 board, the MCP78 would not budge from DDR2-667 and so that was the setting used to run both platforms to ensure a fair test.

The N78S was rested on our special overclocking newspaper.

Benchmark Setup 

• AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-core
• Scythe Zipang w/ S-Flex F
• Palit N78S (MCP78S IGP)
• Biostar TA780G M2+ (RS780 IGP)
• 2 x 2GB OCZ2VU6672G PC2-5400 (@ DDR2-667, CL5-5-5-15, 1T)
• 2 x 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Enermax Galaxy 1kW reV2.0
• NVIDIA ForceWare 174.13 Beta Drivers
• ATI Catalyst 8.4.5.2 Beta Drivers

Discrete Graphics and Geforce Boost Tests

• Zotac Geforce 8400GS 256MB