Gaming Tests

And finally some gaming benchmarks, the favorite review page for all gamers. Five popular and new titles are chosen to represent every game genre. Far Cry 2 and Section 8 for FPS gamers, Resident Evil 5 for adventure gamers, HAWX and GTR Evolution for simulation gamers. GTR Evolution is a bit older but it shows how it is done when it comes to using multiple cores on a CPU.

In game quality details for all resolutions are set to following:

• Tom Clancy's HAWX v1.1 - high details
• Resident Evil 5 benchmark - medium details
• Section 8 v1.0 - high details
• GTR Evolution v1.0 - high details, Level 1 AA
• Far Cry 2 v1.3 - DirectX 10, High Detail

While Core 2 Duo based processors have always been praised as the best gamer's choice, the situation has changed alot, thanks to AMD. Today's games use at least two cores, but more and more of them go all the way to four cores, and performance of dual core processors falls behind with each new title.

As for Pentium E6300, it can offer some decent gaming performance thanks to its higher clock, but it's nowhere near Athlon II X3 425 in titles that are multithreading optimized. In those games that utilize only one or two cores, Pentium E6300 can offer on par or even better performance than Athlon II X3 425, but so can Athlon II X2 240.

Far Cry 2

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Resident Evil 5

GTR Evolution

Section 8