Review: Leadtek Twinforce 2

Aquamark should show the same performance we've seen already. Slower than the other test systems overall but not so far away that it becomes a large gap between the two.

Being card limited, we see what the 64MB of card memory and slower card clocks does for proceedings in this DirectX 8, shader and texture heavy test (which you can verify by turning on anisotropic texture filtering when playing Aquanox!).

That's not to say it was slow, on the contrary. Examined in isolation, performance is strong, just the other test systems are slightly stronger.

Comanche 4 is highly system limited on current graphics hardware so the XP2100+ processor and the nForce chipset are what were are mainly testing here. Can the chipset enable the CPU to do sterling work?

Compared to the other AMD systems, the XP2100+ and nForce combination doesn't do too badly. With the board running in DDR266 mode compared to DDR333 on all the other test systems it's at a slight disadvantage although the memory bus is synchronous (and thus lower latency) with the CPU bus frequency so it balances out. The AMD platform is unable to make use of the extra bandwidth in 266/333 asynchronous mode anyway, on KT333 at least.

So overall a good showing from the Twinforce 2 combination in the games tests where the graphics card is called into play. What about when it's all down to the motherboard, chipset, CPU and memory subsystem?