Test bed

G98 is for low end and HTPC market segment, so in our test we will focus on HD video play back. Of course we will also run some games and benchmarks in low settings.

Intel Celeron 460

For simulating user’s setup, we use Intel Celeron 460 (2.4GHz，12*200MHz) which also locate in the low end market.

Cyberlink PowerDVD is a high quality DVD playback program. The latest version 7.3 can fully support ATI Avivo HD and NVIDIA PureVideo HD, as well as Blu-ray & HD DVD. What’s more, PowerDVD Ultra 7.3 also supports direct play .ts file. Opening graphics card hardware decoding is an easy job, only a few clicks and its done.

If the VGA card supports PureVideo HD, a mark will show up.

We use Vista’s resource monitor to record the CPU usage.

Due to no HD DVD and Blu-ray selling in china so the only way to have the card tested is using DEMO, trailers and movie scene cuts. We have two VC-1 video: De javu, King Kong; two H.264/AVC: X-MAN 3, The Prestige; one MPEG-2: Pioneer DEMO2006. All five videos are 1080P.

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: A closer look
Page 3: Test bed
Page 4: VC-1 1080P: King Kong
Page 5: VC-1 1080P: De Javu
Page 6: H.264 1080P: X-MAN3
Page 7: H.264 1080P: The Prestige
Page 8: MPEG-2 1080P: Pioneer DEMO2006
Page 9: 3DMark06
Page 10: Game benches
Page 11: Overclock test
Page 12: Final thought

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