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Obviously, we're very system limited at 1024 x 768 with AA and AF. Don't even bother looking at non AA and AF scores, they're all the same up to 1600 x 1200. It's only at 1280 x 960 and 1600 x 1200 with AA and AF do we see a difference between running the game with and without AA and AF. Unlike Call of Duty, here we see a pretty large gap opening up between the MSI NX7900GT and the other three cards at 1280 x 960 with AA and AF - something like 25 fps. But once we take into account the high frame rates we're seeing, that's only a 10 percent difference or about the same as we saw earlier with Call of Duty.

It may not seem a big deal at1280 x 960, but once we hit 1600 x 1200, the reference clocked NX7900GT offers less than stellar frame rates - a 36 fps minimum. Remember, we generally want at least a 40 fps minimum for this game to run smoothly. The ASUS EN7900GT TOP, Leadtek PX7900GT Extreme and Gigabyte GeForce 7900GT TurboForce is just a shy away of that.

Of course, these benchmarks are fairly old games, so the results with newer games may be different, but not necessarily so. We saw a similar trend with our round up of GeForce 7600GTs - a slightly higher clocked card isn't going to give you night and day difference in the frame rate department  However, if you want slightly higher frame rate at 1600 x 1200, any of these higher clocked GeForce 7900GT may deliver the goods. They can be a good alternative if you can't get your hands on a GeForce 7900GTX or unable to use one because of space constraints.

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