Far Cry
With the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ in the SCAN 3XS Chameleon clocked at near Athlon 64 FX-57 basic clocks (only 40MHz short with a 15% higher driven clock), a quick analysis of gaming performance, especially with the graphics boards clocked 15% higher or so in terms of core clock, was worth a look. In theory, the 3XS Chameleon system should pretty much blow the reference system away. With both cores on the AMD CPU nearly as fast in outright frequency and that second core there to enhance performance (remember that predominantly single-threaded code can go faster just because of the presence of another core to handle other threads), basic performance should be great. Add in overclocked XFX GeForce 7800 GTX SLi and there's a frame rate party just waiting to happen.Far Cry show CPU limitations at 1024x768 but will move onto being (at least partly) GPU limited fairly quickly afterwards. A good test for the 3XS Chameleon box. NVIDIA SLI was enabled of course and split frame rendering is the chosen mode by the driver.
A 40% performance gap at 1600x1200 says it all, the SCAN 3XS Chameleon system kicking some serious ass. There are gains to be had at high res and high IQ across the board on the 3XS Chameleon system, compared to an equivalent Athlon 64 FX-57-based system like the HEXUS comparison box. Close to A64 FX-57 clocks with two cores sees to that, making this AMD powerd SCAN 3XS Chameleon a serious gamer's system.