Publisher: Electronic Arts
We tested the game using the 64-bit executable under and DirectX 10 with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom time demo recorded on the Harbour map which is more representative of gameplay than the built-in benchmark that renders things much faster than you're going to experience in game.
For our testing, we set all the settings to High. Because of how intense the game is, we tested with both anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering disabled at resolutions above 1,680 x 1,050 for the time being. There is currently no support for anisotropic filtering in the game, but you can still force it from the driver control panel.
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MSI P55 GD65
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Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
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Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
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Asus P7P55 Deluxe
Frames Per Second - higher is better
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Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
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Asus P7P55 Deluxe
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MSI P55 GD65
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Gigabyte GA-P55
Frames Per Second - higher is better
Crysis yields a marginally better stock performance, than the Gigabyte UD4, and Asus, and the MSI GD65 is only a single frame per second ahead in minimum frame rate. Overclocked the slight lack of CPU frequency causes a very slight loss of performance, but really there's no real difference.
Publisher: Ubisoft
Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft, and while it continues the
Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, this game is built on its own in-house engine and has no association - other than its name - to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now. We used a retail version of the game patched to version 1.02, and used the in-built "Action" gameplay demo set to Ultra-Very High settings under DirectX 10.
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Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
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Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
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Asus P7P55 Deluxe
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MSI P55 GD65
Frames Per Second - higher is better
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Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
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Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
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Asus P7P55 Deluxe
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MSI P55 GD65
Frames Per Second - higher is better
Average frame rate in
Far Cry 2 maybe a few frames per second lower at stock speed, but its minimums are very good here and when overclocked yielding marginally better performance than the other boards tested.
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