Saturday, November 20, 2004

EverQuest II: Screenshots

Isle of Refuge: This is the starting isle where you initially come after being picked up by the refugee ship. A lot of the UI windows are still in their default location.


Isle of Refuge: Showing what the Ultravision ability looks light at night (lets you see in dark places).


This is one of the crafting stations in the tradeskill society that I joined. There are multiple stations in the zone and each station is of a different type (stoves, forges, alchemy tables).


Swimming in the Big Bend harbor. Shows you what the ripples in the water look like.


East Freeport


Some other spot in Freeport


Death message


Here's what it looks like when you're looking for your death shard. You'll usually get a glowing trail that points you towards your shard.


Casting "Call of the Overlord". Everyone gets a spell on a 1 hour recast timer that will return them to their home district in their starting city.


Going invisible.


First griffin ride. This will rock your socks off the first time that you do it. It's a very unique way of getting around a very large zone. This also shows how I've rearranged my windows so that all combat stuff is on the right-hand side.


My character, Sorish.

Labels: EverQuest2

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Sunday, November 14, 2004

AquaMark3 NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Toasted my old Ti4600 card this week, the fan finally went out on it and I can't manage to get the old cooler off without destroying the card. So I picked up a new GeForce 6800 for $300 (which was the next reasonable step up from the FX 5900 XT).

NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600
NVIDIA 61.77 (stock, high performance, 128MB aperture)
A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard AthlonXP 2600+ CPU PC2700 DDR
AquaMark3 Score: 19480 (CPU: 6286, GFX: 2304)

GeForce FX 5900 XT
NVIDIA 61.77 (stock, high performance, 128MB aperture)
Asus SK8V Opteron 144 PC2100 1GB
AquaMark3 Score: 36520 (CPU: 7260, GFX: 4878)

GeForce 6800
NVIDIA 61.77 (stock, high performance, 128MB aperture)
Asus SK8V Opteron 144 PC2100 1GB
AquaMark3 Score: 46982 (CPU: 7008, GFX: 7122)

So, it's about 28%-45% faster then my old FX 5900 XT card. Not a bad bump in speed, and a good deal faster then the old Ti 4600 card. Top scores for NVIDIA cards are in the 55000-60000 range, so it's not that bad of a score.

Labels: Benchmarks, NVIDIA

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