Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 21, 2004 @04:10PM from the doom-indigo dept.

Rogerpq3 writes "Before the game goes on sale, id Software has been kind enough to release some benchmarks for DOOM 3 with the latest video cards on the market from NVIDIA & ATI. HardOCP has published the five page article which should help anyone trying to decide if they should upgrade their video card for DOOM 3. There's also an introductory note from John Carmack, mentioning: 'The benchmarking was conducted on-site, and the hardware vendors did not have access to the demo before hand, so we are confident that there is no egregious cheating going on.', and the HardOCP writers comment: 'As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience.'"

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Re:Doom 3 is *only* reason for me upgrades by Tezkah · 2004-07-21 18:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Even if you are "software guy", I'd suggest building your own instead of buying Alienware. Why? Well, instead of paying a premium for a brand name, you can put that money into the parts. $2000 might buy you a nice PC from them, but $2000 spent on parts for your own computer? You'd get a screaming fast machine, and putting it together isn't much harder than playing with Lego.