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Gunmetal returned rather strange scores, that is, we got two different sets of data that are not comparable at all even though everything was running at the exact same settings. The differences are in the order of 30% and since there is no indication what causes the differences, we are not going to show the results until we know more. Suffice it to say that even with a freshly formatted drive, we found the same discrepancies. Interestingly, these issues were confined exclusively to GunMetal and affected both benchmarks.

Aquamark3

Since the benchmark is very graphics adapter-limited, the overall fps scores are closely grouped for all systems.

The CPU scores show much greater differences and place the Extreme Edition on top.

FinalFantasy XI

FFXI Benchmark2 is a new benchmark simulating a massive multiplayer environment, somewhat similar to what the UT2003 Botmatch is like. The benchmark is extremely sensitive to memory latencies and further requires a huge amount of raw CPU power. All benchmarks were run at the "High" detail level with sound enabled.

The FX-51 scores a clear win here but the P4 EE is also clearly ahead of the standard 3.2 GHz version.

MDK2

No longer the latest and greatest, MDK2 is an OpenGL game that is both CPU and graphics intensive. The benchmark was run at the default settings, that is, 800 x 600 x 32 bpp with hardware T&L enabled, and bilinear filtering.

The Extreme Edition gets a more than 10% performance boost but the game overall appears to like the AMD processors.

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