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15 March 2009

FEAR 2: Project Origin - GPU Graphics Performance



FEAR 2: Project Origin was released on Febuary, 11 2009. The storyline starts 30-minutes before the nuclear end of the first FEAR game. The game is powered by the LithTech engine, although still DX9, but it incorporates new features such as Havok Physics, per-pixel lighting, particle effect systems, HDR, post-processing & motion blur etc. In the following review (extracted from PConline), we shall find out how it performs on the latest graphics cards.



Test Platform

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz
Gigabyte X48
Apacer DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 2x1GB
Seagate 7200.10 SATA 500Gb

Nvidia GeForce 9600GSO (650/1400Mhz)
Nvidia GeForce 9600GT (650/1800MHz)
Nvidia GeForce 9800GT (600/1800MHz)
Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX+ (738/2200MHz)
Nvidia GeForce GTX260 (576/1998MHz)

AMD Radeon HD4670 (750/2000MHz)
AMD Radeon HD4830 (575/1800MHz)
AMD Radeon HD4850 (625/2000MHz)
AMD Radeon HD4870 (750/3600MHz)

Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Forceware 182.06 / Catalyst 9.2






1440x900

There is no option for GTX260 to run the game at 1440x900.






1680x1050 4xAA

Project Orignal seems to be less demanding to the system than its previous releases, even lower end graphics cards like HD4670 and 9600GSO are able to handle the game with maximum graphics details, scoring above 50fps.






1920x1200 4xAA

HD4870 512MB dominates this game at every resolution. While on the mainstream side, HD4670 512MB & 9600GSO 256MB manage to chink out playable frame rates, even at this high resolution with anti-aliasing turned on.


08 March 2009

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs E8200 vs E7300 Part5



E7500 is overclocked to 4.4Ghz with only 1.312v!


Overclocked benchmark result:














Page 1: Introduction & CPU-Z
Page 2: Test System & 3DMark Vantage
Page 3: CineBench & Wprime
Page 4: FarCry2 & Crysis
Page 5: Overclocking Result

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs E8200 vs E7300 Part4



It's a draw between E7500 & E8200 in FarCry 2.





Crysis performs better with larger L2 cache.



Page 1: Introduction & CPU-Z
Page 2: Test System & 3DMark Vantage
Page 3: CineBench & Wprime
Page 4: FarCry2 & Crysis
Page 5: Overclocking Result

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs E8200 vs E7300 Part3



E7500 edges out 8.2% faster.





Clock frequency is a more important than L2 cache size as shown in the 2 scenarios above.


Page 1: Introduction & CPU-Z
Page 2: Test System & 3DMark Vantage
Page 3: CineBench & Wprime
Page 4: FarCry2 & Crysis
Page 5: Overclocking Result

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs E8200 vs E7300 Part2

Test System

Core 2 Duo E7300 3MB 2.66Ghz 1066Mhz
Core 2 Duo E7500 3MB 2.93Ghz 1066Mhz
Core 2 Duo E8200 6MB 2.66Ghz 1333Mhz

Intel P45 mainboard
Corsair CM2X1024-6400G 2GB(2x1G)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 250GB
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+ (740/1836/2200)
CoolerMaster RealPower 500W

Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Chipset Device Software Driver 9.0.0.1008 Vista
ForceWare 180.48 WHQL Vista




3DMark Vantage Performance overall score





3DMark Vantage Performance CPU score



E8200 loses marginally to E7500 despite having a faster FSB & double the amount of L2 cache.


Page 1: Introduction & CPU-Z
Page 2: Test System & 3DMark Vantage
Page 3: CineBench & Wprime
Page 4: FarCry2 & Crysis
Page 5: Overclocking Result

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs E8200 vs E7300 Part1

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs E8200 vs E7300




Launched in January earlier this year is the Intel Core 2 Duo E7500, clocked at 2.93Ghz with 3MB worth of L2 cache. Like all other E7xxx, it is based on the Wolfdale core built on 45nm technology. The following is an abstract of the original article.





This chip is currently retailing at NewEgg for $139.99.





R0 stepping as seen in the CPU-Z screenshot,
vcore range is 0.85~1.3625V


Page 1: Introduction & CPU-Z
Page 2: Test System & 3DMark Vantage
Page 3: CineBench & Wprime
Page 4: FarCry2 & Crysis
Page 5: Overclocking Result

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