The gaming tests were run using a single ATI Radeon X1950XTX video card with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering enabled. These are the same settings we usually benchmark our video cards with. By disabling both anisotropic filtering along with anti-aliasing we could have created a situation more dependant on processing power, however, we wanted to create a more realistic situation.

To test processor gaming performance, we usually run our gaming tests at 640x480 or 800x600, therefore increasing the impact the processor has on performance. However, considering the power of many of today's video cards, including lower end cards, we decided to run the F.E.A.R. tests at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.

3D Mark 2006 has a benchmark built specifically for testing processors. For this reason the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is able to perform the fastest in the tests. In a real world situation, as we discovered in our review of the QX6700, most games don't take advantage of the processor's four cores.

In F.E.A.R. performance across all processors is relatively the same, the only major exception is the Core 2 Duo E4300 and Core 2 Duo E6300, which end up with least amount of performance. We believe that the video game has some limits with these processors. We are pretty sure, although we cannot guarantee, that this is a result of the clock frequency of these processors being below the 2 GHz line.

On the whole, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ does not perform differently from other processors in F.E.A.R. Its performance stays relatively the same and remains on par with competing processors.