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Product: AMD Athlon 64 4000+
Company: AMD
Website: http://www.amd.com
Estimated Street Price: $500
Review By: Byron Hinson

Farcry Benchmarks

Table Of Contents
1: Introduction
2: Setup and Components
3: More Details
4: Installation
5: Windows Performance
6: Half Life 2
7: Doom 3
8: Farcry
9: X2: The Threat
10: 3D Mark 2005
11: PC Mark 2004

12: Conclusion

Not only is FarCry an excellent benchmark, its also a fantastically enjoyable game. The game uses a lot of graphic processing so we have our Crucial X850 XT graphics card for that side of things, but the game also uses quite a bit of processing power for all of the physics and ragdoll effects that are on show.This was the first games title that I really noticed a major difference, everything was super smooth even in ultra mode at 1680x1050 on the 4000. Farcry uses both the graphics card and the processor (more work on the processing than in Doom 3) to the best of their abilities, so it was good to see the 4000+ moving away with much better frame rates over the 3000 processor.

Farcry 1280x1024 Ultra Detail - Athlon 64 4000+

Level
FPS
Volcano
81
Research

87

Training
70
Steam
63

Farcry 1280x1024 Ultra Detail - Athlon 64 3800+

Level
FPS
Volcano
75
Research

82

Training
67
Steam
60

Farcry 1280x1024 Ultra Detail - Athlon 64 3000+

Level
FPS
Volcano
63
Research

72

Training
52
Steam
44

 

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