Our benchmark journey concludes with a little bit of some 3D gaming benchmarks. First up is the complete 3DMark suite. Some people recently have asked why 3DMark 01 is included with our benchmark results, I simply tell them it is because 3DMark 01 is the best benchmark out there...aside from Super Pi of course.

You know it is funny, where we just finished dogging on the 7-6-5 results in the system section, that timing set shows the highest scores in both 3DMark 01 and 05 which are the most sensitive of all 3DMark benchmarks to system performance. As the sports saying goes, "this is why we play the game", because sometimes you just never know how it is going to turn out.

Then just as quickly as 7-6-5 rose to the top, it fell right back down again. Call of Duty 4 showed slightly weaker performance with the overclocked 7-6-5 set but the results are inconclusive at best. The margin of difference is slim to none in either games and despite our best efforts to keep the playing field level for all the benchmarks, these 3D results can't be construed as anything other than "margin for error results". Which simply means that the differences in results could easily be chalked up to the inherit difference in results you get from running any benchmark. We through these in to simply show that memory performance, and system performance on the whole, shows very little gains in a lot of games when mated to a high end video card like the HD3870X2.