Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 & Gigabyte 8I945P-G

Unreal Tournament 2004 DirectX 8 Gaming Performance

Next, we assessed the gaming side of things, performing some low-resolution benchmarking with Unreal Tournament 2004.  We used a "Low-Quality" game setting which allows us to isolate CPU and memory performance with little burden on the graphics subsystem.

As you can see, the Athlon 3200+ can easily take on the faster Pentium 820 D with regards gaming.  The 945's all trailed the Athlon 3200+ test bed by 20 FPS.  Regardless, all systems easily exceeded triple-digit frame rates, which is well above acceptable limits in all cases.

Benchmarks with Doom 3 OpenGL Gaming Performance

With Doom3, we also loaded a low quality video setting and ran our timedemo used for multiplayer testing in video card reviews.

Once again, the Athlon 3200+ was the top performer, but the 945 systems were also well up to the task.  Like UT2004, the Pentium D 820 still trailed the Clawhammer by roughly 20 FPS.  This demonstrates that gaming is still a major strength of the Athlon line, even with a processor that has been around for several years.