Author: HQH
Released: August 6, 2004
Updated: August 19, 2004
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Doom 3 has finally arrived. I managed to get myself a copy of Doom 3. I have decided to dedicate some time to do some benchmarking
with Doom 3 with my current computer to see what kind of performances I would get (and for those with similiar computer as mine)
while mixing Doom 3 video quality settings. It is no doubt that Doom 3 can strain current computers and yester-year's computers
with its superb OpenGL rendering engine.
So, I will set out to find what type of numbers my computer can spit out from Doom 3 benchmarks. I am going to spare you folks
about me rambling on with this and that and get straight to the point. This editorial consists of benchmarking my computer through
several resolution options that Doom 3 provides. The next page will list vital details about the computer being used for the
benchmarks and what settings were used in Doom 3. I will also benchmark my computer with overclocked devices (e.g. CPU, video card,
RAM) to see what kind of improvements can be achieved over the default baseline computer (nothing overclocked, all stock).
Highlights of the computer employed for benchmarking is a Pentium 4 2.4C (the one with Hyper-Threading) and an ATI All-In-Wonder
Radeon 9800 Pro, which is essentially an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro at heart. At first, the editorial would only focus on Catalyst 4.7
driver, but then ATI released Catalyst 4.9 beta. The documentation for Catalyst 4.9 beta mentioned that improvement wasn't as good
as the current ATI generation's video card. Some people say there's little to no improvements. I decided to put Catalyst 4.9 beta
to the test with my own computer configuration and find out for myself what's the real deal. Catalyst 4.8 was finally released, so
an update to this editorial has been done to include Catalyst 4.8 results. Enjoy the numbers, as I slaved for a long time to get all
these numbers.
Test Setup
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