abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review :: General Usage and Gaming

Author: Benjamin Sun · 04-11-2007 · Category: Motherboards

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  • Features: 34
  • Ergonomics: 7
  • Compatibility: 25
  • Support: 10
  • Performance: 05
  • Total: 81
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The 1250 has all of the trademarks of its older brother, the X700 series chipset. Unfortunately, the integrated video was inadequate to play games like Prey, Stalker, Oblivion and the like at all but the lowest settings at unplayable framerates. The x1250 is the best available integrated graphics chipset but ATI is also in the business of selling video cards.

The newest Command and Conquer game, Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars was released just a few days ago on the 30th of March. This game is the climax to the trilogy started way back in 1995. This game would seem to be a good match to the X1250 graphics core on the F-190HD motherboard, as it is a RTS (Real Time Strategy) game. The game played well, with slowdowns only when there are huge armies fighting each other. Setup of the F-190HD went without incident. The location of the FDD controller caused a bit of an issue as the cable went from the PSU, over the 8800GTX I tried the system with and the TV tuner card. Depending on the case you use, the cables might be a bit of a problem with airflow.


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