Doom 3
takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing
power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At its highest setting, Ultra quality,
texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will
have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are
locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three
times with the third run being recorded.
 Doom 3 |
| LQ 640x480 |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 2GB Kit Corsair
DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800) |
183.8 |
   |
| 4GB Kit Crucial
PC2-6400 (200/800) |
182 |
|
 4GB Kit Mushkin XP2-6400 (200/800) |
183.5 |
   |
| 4GB Kit Mushkin XP2-6400 (200/1130) |
193.6 |
|
Doom 3 results elevate the 4GB Mushkin memory kit into a
pretty good light in Vista 64-bit. Overclocking in this 64-bit operating system
does boost framerates somewhat, although not high enough to be really
noticeable.
 Sierra FEAR 1.08 |
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 |
| Min 640x480 |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 2GB Kit Corsair
DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800) |
476 |
|
| 4GB Kit Crucial
PC2-6400 (200/800) |
470 |
|
| 4GB Kit Mushkin XP2-6400 (200/800) |
478 |
|
| 4GB Kit Mushkin XP2-6400 (200/1130) |
521 |
|
In the last benchmark of the day, the 4GB Mushkin
XP2-6400 memory kit puts on another good show in Windows Vista 64-bit.
Overclocking here nets a ~10% boost in framerates which should make a difference
if you find the game too slow. Memory size does not matter that much in
gaming.
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