Gaming Tests
Our gaming tests set out to find games that were heavily CPU dependent in order to test for platform differences. Games at higher resolutions with more emphasis on the GPU won’t show us any differences, if they exist.
FEAR v1.03
We ran FEAR at 1024×768 with the CPU settings at maximum and the GPU settings at medium to show any performance differences off of the GPU.
Call of Duty 2 v1.01
We ran CoD2 at 1024×768 with the GPU settings at Medium.
3DMark06 v1.02
This benchmark is used by many in the enthusiast crowd to compare their systems so we decided it would be good for our readers if we included numbers from our test system here as well.
In the field of gaming, where the Athlon 64 processor has really gotten the most press and had the most noticeable and noteworthy performance advantage, Intel’s T2600 is able to nearly match it. Both FEAR and Call of Duty 2 show very close gaming performance numbers here and we can deduce that the T2600 would make an excellent gaming processor were it on a standard enthusiast level motherboard.
