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Asus ENGTX285 Top

08 Apr, 2009, 5:14 pm IST | by Anand Tuliani | Graphics Cards Graphics Cards


Asus has also bundled two utilities, SmartDoctor and GamerOSD, on the driver disc. SmartDoctor  is a handy tool  for monitoring  the  temperatures and manually overclocking  the card. The main interface of SmartDoctor is tabbed and displays the temperatures of the core and memory in Centigrade or Fahrenheit. There are sliders for adjusting the core, shader and memory speeds at the bottom of the window. A few more tweaks can be accessed from the Settings dialog box. You can set the alarm threshold temperature for GPU and memory, control the fan speed, and even let SmartDoctor overclock the card automatically. Using the GamerOSD utility you can capture or broadcast gameplay videos over the Internet.

Performance
The GTX 285 defeats the GTX 280, by merely a few frames per second because of its slightly faster core and memory speeds. However, it has an upper hand because it is manufactured using a 55 nm process. We  tested ENGTX285 TOP on a  rig powered by  the  Intel Core  i7-965, 4 GB of DDR3 memory and a 500 GB Western Digital Caviar GP hard drive.

The card  is just a  little  faster  than a  regular GTX 285 and generates a measly 3  to 5  fps more, which doesn't  really  justify  its price premium. PCMark Vantage  reported a  performance bump of 4 percent, which we  found  to be  totally  imperceptible  in any of our  real-world gaming  tests.

Conclusion
For Rs 29,650 — the ENGTX285 TOP is a stellar performer, but it isn’t special when compared to the stock GTX 285.

Would you buy it?




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