Gaming
Will gaming finally show a real difference between the contenders' performance?
What 3DMark2001SE shows is that a price-equivalent AMD S939 CPU is significantly better at providing subsystem oomph. The 3 i955X, single nForce4 SLI I.E., and i945G all return similar benchmark numbers.
What's clear is that an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ is faster than an Intel Pentium 660 in these gaming benchmarks. The i955X chipset, thanks to a tweaked memory controller, is just a touch faster than an i945G and around the same speed as well-tuned nForce4 SLI I.E. However, the latter sports the all-important SLI technology that gamers just love.
