Return to Castle
Wolfenstein is relatively new benchmark and it's gained quite a bit of
popularity thanks to our good friends,
Anandtech. Being based on the Quake III engine, it's obviously going
to be quite taxing on even a top end system. Let's see what it
thinks.
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"atdemo6" |
Setting: |
Score: |
150 MHz |
59.7 FPS |
170 MHz |
63.4 FPS |
The atdemo6 demo is
a lot like the nv15demo in Quake III. It's all CPU limited.
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"atdemo8" |
Setting: |
Score: |
150 MHz |
157.9 FPS |
170 MHz |
164.4 FPS |
This is more like
demo001 but still, RTCW seems to favor high bus speeds like it's older
brother.
Conclusions:
OCZ again has really
outdone itself this time. It's great that the stick could run CL2 at 150 MHz,
however being able to run CL2 at 170 MHz was simply incredible. They're really
living up to their name. A finely tuned AthlonXP system with fast DDR ram
like this has no rivals out there, not even the "evil" Pentium4/Rambus combo can
beat it.
DDR is here to stay.
With memory prices so low, and DDR motherboards going for the same as SDR
boards, there just isn't any reason for a consumer/enthusiast to buy SDR
technology anymore. If they did, that would just be
foolish!