FEAR	Source: Sierra

FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to follow.

FEAR
Minimum 640x480:	FPS	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	244
Intel Pentium D 940	212
AMD Athlon64 4000+	268
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	286
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+	243
AMD Athlon64 FX-62	277
AMD Sempron 3600+	209
AMD Sempron 3600+ (2.5 GHz)	214
Maximum 1024x768:	FPS	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	115
Intel Pentium D 940	98
AMD Athlon64 4000+	105
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	131
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+	99
AMD Athlon64 FX-62	103
AMD Sempron 3600+	84
AMD Sempron 3600+ (2.5 GHz)	86

It's rather surprising to see how little overclocking does to improve performance. Framerates at 1024x768 with maximum settings are pretty good; just goes to show you what a $100 CDN processor can do!