System Setup

Intro

Another month - another Detonator driver. We haven't really come to a consensus whether this is a good thing. One the one hand, they are always upping the performance and fixing little bugs. Were we that bad off to start with? Or are they improving a good thing? Who knows, what we do know is that this company tinkers like a bunch of dwarves on crack. A scant month after the official 21.83s popped out, NVIDIA has managed to jump a few more numbers on the driver notch - 23.11.

Test System Setup

AMD Thunderbird 1200 MHz

Abit KR7A RAID
VIA 4in1 version 4.35

256MB Corsair PC2100 DDR SDRAM

WinXP

GeForce3
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 MX
Driver version Detonator 23.11
Driver version Detonator 21.83

IBM 30 GB Hard Drive

Benchmarks

3DMark 2000
3DMark2000 - 640x480x32
3DMark2000 - 800x600x32
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x32

3DMark 2001
3DMark2001 - 640x480x32
3DMark2001 - 800x600x32
3DMark2001 - 1024x768x32

Quake III
Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Fastest, High Quality

MDK2
640x480x32
800x600x32
1024x768x32
1280x1024x32
1600x1200x32

Notes

We realize that we didn't include any Intel numbers in this article. Time constraints force that update for a bit later. Until then, enjoy!