Benchmark Results: World In Conflict, Supreme Commander
3D Games: World In Conflict, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
At stock clock speeds, the $500 system is unable to reach 25 FPS at any resolution. Overclocking provides a significant increase of 10 or more FPS at each resolution.
With AA and AF cranked up, again we see our overclocked machine yielding solid gains, although performance drops off significantly at 1920x1200. Notice that once overclocked, we see the same performance at 1680x1050 with 4x AA and 16x AF as we did without overclocking at 1280x1024 with no AA and AF.
Even overclocked, the best our entry-level system manages at these demanding settings is 20 FPS. As with Crysis, it’s possible that turning things down to a more realistic setting may yield larger gains from overclocking than we see here.
With 4x AA enabled, overclocking added one FPS at each resolution. But at 10 FPS or below, there isn’t much to look at in this chart.
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Looking at the three systems that TH has put together for these reviews:
All the CPU's are of INTEL, does this mean that AMD is not an economical option in any of these price/performance brackets?
obviously not, this test is for price/power. if economy was a big factor in these reviews then im sure an amd proc would of gone in this computer.most likely not the super pc tho
It means that AMD simply isn't giving a decent power
rice ratio. As good as some of the chips AMD has released they just don't quite get there in terms of what you're paying for in comparison
Surely (as suggested in the article as an alternative) an X2 6000 which is already a 3ghz CPU would be a better long-term bet than a heavily overclocked Intel?
I woud have thought that for those with only $500 to spend, they would also be looking for years of stability rather than ultimate raw speed /shrug
Kyzarvs> well said. The conclusion I got, was there is nothing out there for $500 and you'll have to overclock.
What if you don't want to overclock?
Would anyone here play games at 800x600 to get a good frame rate with high detail. For some parts of crysis I did. guess what - it was still a great game.
well said, waxdart.
cheers,
bill
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Well AMD can't compete with Intel at the low because of:
However the choice of a E2180 is a bit stupid IMHO.
Bob
Kyzarvs> well said. The conclusion I got, was there is nothing out there for $500 and you'll have to overclock.What if you don't want to overclock?Would anyone here play games at 800x600 to get a good frame rate with high detail. For some parts of crysis I did. guess what - it was still a great game.
Well put it this way, Would you Spend £250/$500 to run Games @ 800x600 And then be outrun by something even cheaper in the next couple of months?
You have to look at it this way;
Spend Money on a good PC that will Outrun for months/year.
Or Spend a little amount on a PC; which you can overclock to the max and then buy another pc for a little amount once it has been outrun?
Great review guys,
Gareth.
How much are motherboard's?