Chaintech Volari V3 Review (4)
Jon 6 Sept 2004

Benchmarking:

This is the system used for testing : 
AMD AthlonXP 3200+
MSI K7N2G-L Motherboard
512 MB DDR memory
Integrated sound Realtek ALC650 controller
Chaintech Volari V3 128 MB and eVGA Geforce MX 4000 128 MB
Windows XP Pro

We're not going too much into benchmarking here, just three to give you a general idea of how this card does. The graphics cards were run through the following set of benchmarks:

• 3D Mark 2003
• 3D Mark 2001 SE 
• Quake III

I was going to benchmark Comanche 4, but I got erratic results, due to the fact that the MX4000 card is not DirectX 8 compliant whereas the Volari V3 supports DirectX 8 in hardware. This results in games automatically disactivating some 3D effects on the MX 4000 (such as water effects, shiny reflections, bump mapping, etc.) whereas the Volari V3 would run these games with the extra eye candy and therefore have more work to do than the MX 4000.

To demonstrate the difference in image quality, below are two screenshots showing the difference between the two cards in water effects.

Geforce MX 4000 - the water looks very plain and dull :

Volari V3 - notice the bump mapping effect on the water as well as the reflections of the trees on the water :

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