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AMD Athlon64 3400+ The speed bump that was more
(Review by MS, January 6, 2004)

Gunmetal is totally limited by the graphics card, whether it is a 1GHz or a 5 GHz CPU doesn't really matter; as long as none of the graphics settings are changed, all benchmarks will come out almost identical.

UnrealTournament 2003

There is np point in showing the flyby scenes since they are only graphics card limited. The Botmatch, on the other hand is limited by the CPU performance / system performance. And the winner is...

X2 Rolling Demo

X2 shows the same phenomenon we already saw in some other benchmarks, the Athlon64 is faster than the FX-51 at the same clock speed.

We ran a plethora of additional benchmarks from Quake3 Arena over Serious Sam and MDK2 and they all show basically the same thing, namely that the Athlon64 3400 is one hell of a fast processor which in most gaming applications actually outperformed the FX-51 on the nForce3-150 chipset. Again, with a different chipset for the FX-51, things might look better for the FX-family but a boost in frame rates in MDK2 from 389 to 417 fps for the FX-51 and the A64 3400+, respecively, at the same clock speed shows that the concept of dual channel memory may not be the one and only path to the performance paradise, rather, it appears as if low latencies are more important after all.

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