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The XFX 9800GX2 comes up aces in this benchmark. Although the Quake Wars engine is getting a bit long in tooth, at 1920x1200 8xAA this benchmark it is still a punishment for any card to run through. At the max resolution, max quality setting, the XFX 9800GX2 delivers a very impressive performance here, more than tripling the performance of the 8800 GT. Very impressive.

Please note though that it looks like the Catalyst 8.3 CrossFireX drivers can't really handle Quake Wars very well at this point. Besides there being virtually no difference between the three and two card HD3870 benchmark runs, there was additionally a great deal of distortion on the screen during this benchmark. If the Catalyst drivers worked for Quake Wars in Vista, you can expect  that the numbers would be much closer -- but the simple point is that they don't at this point, which must be terribly annoying for Quake Wars fans out there, with multiple HD3870 cards. The CrossFireX drivers are still fairly new, so hopefully this will be rectified in the near future.