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Q3 2006 CPU Performance Charts

By Vijay Anand - 23 Oct 2006

Results - F.E.A.R.

Results - F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. represents some of the newest crop of games that tax graphics cards such as even the performance series GeForce 7900 GT if you choose to immerse yourself in stunning visual quality. As you can see from the scores, the graphics card has become the bottleneck, but this is exactly the message we wish to drive to those who aren't aware. The very newest games are designed to be a visual feast for your eyes, and even though you can control the level of quality, for those who staunchly stand against reducing their game experience, you stand to gain a lot more from a graphics subsystem upgrade than a CPU upgrade. This line of advice is likely to hold true for sometime till game developers start to harness the CPU's multiple cores for physics calculations and a high degree of artificial intelligence involvement to push CPU requirements to the next level. That doesn't mean you can live off an old Socket-A processor as there needs to be a reasonable balance of platform competence and graphics subsystem performance to drive these new games fluidly.

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