The Juggernauts

The FXs and Extreme Editions

F.E.A.R. Performance 1024x768x32
CPU	Min FPS	Max FPS
Athlon 64 FX-57	45	156
Athlon 64 FX-55	44	157
Athlon 64 FX-53/4000+	45	154
Athlon 64 FX-51	42	174
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.46GHz	42	154
Pentium 4 Exreme Edition 3.4GHz	43	156

F.E.A.R. Performance 1600x1200
CPU	Min FPS	Max FPS
Athlon 64 FX-57	16	65
Athlon 64 FX-55	16	65
Athlon 64 FX-53/4000+	16	65
Athlon 64 FX-51	17	66
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.46GHz	16	65
Pentium 4 Exreme Edition 3.4GHz	16	65

Notes

What sort of gaming performance do you get after spending more than a thousand dollars on a processor? In the case of these ultra-powerful Athlon 64 FXs and Pentium Extreme Edition chips, not a whole lot of differentiation. Then again, that’s a somewhat plausible outcome if you consider the game might be limited by graphics performance and not processor alacrity. Let’s push on and see what the next set of scores reveals.