Athlon 64 delivers twice as many UT2004 frames as Pentium 4 - claim

3DCENTER.ORG has recorded a couple of time demos in the UT2004 demo for benchmark use. The files can be found here and here. You'll need a big CPU they add. And the best CPU for UT2004 is an Athlon 64. The frame rates of a 2GHz Athlon 64 are double those of a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4, they reckon.

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