ID Software Doom 3 1.3	Source: id Software

Doom 3 takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three times with the third run being recorded.

Doom 3
LQ 640x480	FPS	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	199.4
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	200.6
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	200.5
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	201.8
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	201.6
4GB Kit Crucial PC2-6400 (200/800)	200.3
4GB Kit Crucial PC2-6400 (200/1020)	204.3

Doom 3 results are in line with what we would expect from a performance system. Nice to see that Crucial can deliver the goods even with its mainstream parts.

ID Software Quake 4 1.3	Source: id Software

Quake 4 is the latest shooter from ID and is based on the Doom 3 engine. Tweaked to for more eye candy, Quake 4 promises to be tougher on videocards and systems than its predecessor was. Quake 4 also does not have a 60 fps limiter like Doom 3, with the Ultra setting, graphic textures can surpass the 500MB mark! Each test is run three times and with the third run being recorded.

Quake 4
LQ 640x480 Custom Demo	FPS	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	198.3
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	198.1
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	197.5
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	197.2
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	198.3
4GB Kit Crucial PC2-6400 (200/800)	199.4
4GB Kit Crucial PC2-6400 (200/1020)	203.8

We see here again that the 4x1GB of PC2-6400 Crucial memory performs well here in Quake 4. Nice to see that even if you get mainstream memory, you still get top notch performance.