Despite the fact that Gigabyte 8600GTS Passive is a middle solution, users will want to enhance visual quality by enabling anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. How well this card can perform with up to 16xQ AA? First lets see how F.E.A.R. performance is affected from such a thought.

The performance even to up to 4x is acceptable, we got around 45 FPS. After that point, it's possible that users might need an extra 8600GTS card to achieve higher frame rates. Another example is Prey. We see a linear drop in performance as anti-aliasing was increasing. At 4xAA we have 46FPS which is very good.

More demanding games with more details might prove to be rather difficult to play if you decide to enable anti-aliasing. Company Of Heroes after 2x AA stretches the system enough even though the game is a RTS, so users might want to avoid enabling AA.