[H]ard|OCP compares Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 in gaming
AMD and Intel head-to-head. With NVIDIA's 8800 series GPU supplying a big jump in performance over the last generation of video cards, we revisit just what these CPUs do for you when you are gaming. Is one truly better? The results have changed.
I asked Brent allow me to write the introduction page and contribute to our conclusions. In the past, I think some of our real world CPU gaming articles have not been fully understood by some of our readers, which is totally understandable considering the way we do our testing is far from conventional.
The last time we did this, we upset off a bunch of people while a lot of others were glad to see something just like this. That go around, it was part of our Intel Core 2 Gaming Performance article. In the last year, when it comes to comparing processors and what performance they supply to you when gaming, we started changing up the way we looked at things. Much the way we started using real gaming experiences to evaluate video cards, HardOCP started applying the same focus to processors...
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