AMD ATHLON XP USED WITH ATI RADEON X1950 PRO GAMING PERFORMANCE
"We are going to answer the question, can you get good game performance with a Athlon XP type processor when used with the current most powerful AGP video card which is the Sapphire Radeon x1950 Pro? We will be using various Athlon XP processors including the most powerful which is the AMD Athlon XP 3200, the mid-range AMD Athlon XP 2500 and the budget AMD Sempron 2200. The AMD Sempron 2200 is a budget processor designed for general use and not really for games but we will show that when paired with a powerful video card even the Sempron 2200 can deliver playable gaming performance. We have used the Asrock K7S8XE+ which uses the SIS748 chipset because it's a stable motherboard and it works perfectly with the Sapphire Radeon x1950 Pro AGP." |
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| BENCHMARK SETTINGS:- We use three image quality and resolution settings for benchmarking hardware for review. Low quality setting uses a resolution of 1024x768 (unless otherwise stated) and all of the game settings are set to low, this setting will mostly test for processor rather than video performance. Medium quality setting uses a resolution of 1280x1024 (unless otherwise stated) and all of the game settings are set to medium, this setting will test both the processor and video performance. High quality setting uses a resolution of 1600x1200 (unless otherwise stated) and all of the game settings are set to high, this setting is a very demanding test for video rather processor performance! |
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MEDIUM QUALITY
HIGH QUALITY
AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200 |
COMMENT - "All of the processors are able to offer playable performance with Doom 3. However the Sempron 2200 appears to be cpu limited although 34fps using high quality settings is still very good." |
QUAKE 4LOW QUALITY
MEDIUM QUALITY
HIGH QUALITY
AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200 |
COMMENT - "It would appear that all of the processors are limiting the power of the Sapphire Radeon x1950 Pro. However even the lowly Sempron 2200 is able to deliver very playable performance at all of the image quality settings." |
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MEDIUM QUALITY
HIGH QUALITY
AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200 |
COMMENT - "Things are getting interesting with Prey and ALL of the processors are able to offer very playble performance. Even the AMD Sempron 2200 is able to push the Sapphire x1950 Pro to 52fps at high quality which is impressive." |
| INDEX |
| PAGE 1 - INTRODUCTION |
| PAGE 2 - DOOM 3, QUAKE 4 AND PREY |
| PAGE 3 - GUN METAL 2, WORLD IN CONFLICT AND SUPREME COMMANDER |
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