Supreme Commander, UT3, Warhammer
An even larger lead for the current $4,000 build opens up when Supreme Commander’s fidelity and anti-aliasing are increased, where this same system had fallen behind at stock speeds. Great overclocking capability made all the difference with our Gigabyte 9800 GX2 graphics cards.
With super-high frame rates for both stock and overclocked configurations, UT3’s favoritism towards the older configuration makes the new system look bad while meaning nothing in terms of actual game play.
The overclocking results illustrate Warhammer’s preference for CPU performance, as the former build had far better CPU overclocking. Without overclocking, the game still preferred the former system’s SLI pair of 8800 GTX graphics cards over the current 9800 GX2’s.