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Even at very high resolutions though, the Athlon 64 chips will
beat comparably priced Intel chips in Doom 3. Of course
that will probably mean that you will need to use an
Athlon 64 FX-53 chip, and that you might have to choose
a professional level video card(I haven't seen how these
perform in Doom 3, but they do get into the thousands
of dollars).
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> "JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> > Moderately Confused wrote:
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> > > "JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
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http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7
> > >
> > > Yes it does, but up the resolution, and it's performance is only
> slightly
> > > better, by an amount which wouldn't be noticeable anyway.
> >
> > However compare it to a $160 P4 2.8, and the Athlon 64 3000+ still
> > leads by a large margin.
> >
> > > If you look at
> > > the 2.8C, almost the same price as the Athlon64 3000+, when the screen
> > > resolution is changed, almost no difference is made.
> >
> > That is probably due to limitations of the video card. It will be
> interesting
> > to see the results when even higher performing video cards are available.
> > Do many people even play games in higher resolutions though?
>
> Of course. Do you think people with a 19" monitor will want 800X600 res, or
> even 1024X768? I would want, at a minimum, 1200+. I doubt that I'm the
> only one, too.
>
> > > So it may not be the
> > > fastest, but it can hang in there. I'm begining to think that you are
> some
> > > kind of spam whore for Anandtech....
> > >
> > > MC
> >