Quake 4

Source: id Software

Quake 4 is the latest shooter from ID and is based on the Doom 3 engine. Tweaked to for more eye candy, Quake 4 promises to be tougher on videocards and systems than its predecessor was. Quake 4 also does not have a 60 fps limiter like Doom 3, with the Ultra setting, graphic textures can surpass the 500MB mark!

Quake 4
LQ 640x480 Custom Demo	FPS	Ranking
2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533)	128.4
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (200/667)	131.2
2x 512MB Corsair PC2-8000UL (200/800)	133.7
2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO (200/800)	135.8
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	136.2
2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G8000+XBLK (200/800)	136.6
2x 1024MB Buffalo FSX1000D2C-K2G (200/800)	136.5
2x 1024MB Buffalo FSX1000D2C-K2G (255/1020)	157.8

Quake 4 framerates are nice and high, it's nice to see that overclocking does boost framerates nicely.

Battlefield 2	Source: Guru3D

In Battlefield 2, players will choose to fight for one of three military superpowers: the United States, the Chinese, or the newly formed Middle East Coalition. Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of any of the games 30+ vehicles to engage in major conflicts with over 64 players in some of the largest online battles on the PC. Test is run five times, which will then be averaged with the highest and lowest runs disregarded, settings are high quality at 1024x768.

Battlefield 2
HQ 1024x768:	FPS	Ranking
2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533)	153.663
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (200/667)	155.674
2x 512MB Corsair PC2-8000UL (200/800)	151.47
2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO (200/800)	184.632
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	190.654
2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G8000+XBLK (200/800)	192.462
2x 1024MB Buffalo FSX1000D2C-K2G (200/800)	191.873
2x 1024MB Buffalo FSX1000D2C-K2G (255/1020)	215.341

With 2GB of DDR-2 installed it definitely makes a difference Battlefield 2. Just wait till Windows Vista arrives, 2GB of system memory will be the minimum standard.