System Builder Marathon: Overclocking
3D Games, Continued
Supreme Commander gets its biggest gains from overclocking, with the 3-way SLI configuration showing a performance loss compared to the high-end system's standard settings.
Even after turning on all the eye-candy, Supreme Commander suffers a performance loss with 3-way SLI, while the overclocked settings take an unnecessary gain.
Unreal Tournament 3 performance was already adequate before we overclocked, but the extra boost favors overclocking over 3-way SLI.
Added proof of what we said in earlier marathon tests comes by way of huge performance gains in Warhammer with a simple increase in CPU clock speed. The game is essentially limited by CPU performance.
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