Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Review

Battlefield 2142

Battlefield 2142 is the latest member of the Battlefield franchise. We updated this game to version 1.01. We created our own demo based on Sidi Power Plant map (click here to download the demo we created for this test), which provided a very consistent number of frames per second. We ran it and measured performance with FRAPS. Read our How to Use Battlefield 2142 to Benchmark your PC tutorial in order to learn the procedure we used here.

We ran this game at 1600×1200 in two scenarios, first with all its image quality settings set to low, and then with all its image quality settings set to high (anti-aliasing at 4x). 

You can see the results below, given in frames per second.

With image quality settings configured at “low”, there was no performance difference among the multi-core CPUs included in our review. Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was, however, 21.78% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz and 24% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz.

When we set all image quality settings to high, all CPUs achieved the same performance level, meaning that under this configuration Battlefield 2142 depends more on the installed video card than on the CPU.