Intel Core i7-3820 Quad-Core Sandy Bridge-E CPU Review
Crysis and ET: Quake Wars
For our next series of tests, we moved on to some more in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 1024x768, and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible. However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually do place a load on the CPU rather than GPU.
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The Intel Core i7-3820 performed well in our low-res game tests. Here, the Core i7-3820 outpaced the Core i7-2700K, and even managed to nudge past the Core i7-990X in the ET:QW test.
