F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R.

Notes

For our game performance testing, we’re going to test under two scenarios: low resolution (800x600), where CPU/memory performance is crucial to performance, the and high resolutions gamers are more likely to game it, where the GPU plays a dominant role in performance.

At 800x600 in F.E.A.R. the XPS 710’s slower 667MHz memory causes it to fall behind the nForce 680i testbed we built. Fortunately though, F.E.A.R. is such a graphically intense game that it’s only behind by 5%. At 1600x1200 with SLI8X AA turned on and 16x anisotropic filtering, the dual GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics cards are the limiting factor and thus CPU/memory isn’t as important. We could probably slap a dual-core core 2 Duo E6400 and get the same frame rate under these conditions.