Intel Core i7 Processors: Nehalem and X58 Have Arrived

Name: Intel Core i7 Processors: Nehalem and X58 Have Arrived - Page 15
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, November 03, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT

In this next set of tests, we continued with some more high-resolution in-game benchmarking with Enemy Territory Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 3. We maximized the in-game graphics options with both game and cranked the resolution up 1920x1200. With ETQW, 4X anti-aliasing and 16X anisotropic filtering were enabled as well.

High-Resolution Gaming: ETQW and UT3

SLI and CrossFireX on Core i7

Both Enemy Territory Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 3 showed a marked performance improvement when running on the Core i7 platform with either 3-Way GeForce GTX 280 SLI or a Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX configuration. As we stated on the previous page, however, although both graphics configurations were faster overall, expect even more performance with future driver releases.

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