AMD Athlon 64 is the processor for Doom 3

[Czar]

Topic is a quote from an article on Anandtech --> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showd...doc.aspx?i=2149

Have a read, it's got some pretty good advice for those of us with older processors.

The final word tho is:

In the end, the winner of the final battle is clear: the AMD Athlon 64 is the processor for Doom 3.

w00t! Huge success story for AMD right there. Hope they put some PR behind it to capitalise a little                    

[Kheulith]

it works great on my p4 so far no probs and it can run up to medium graphics so far on a gforce440mx                    

[Czar]

Works great on my AthlonXP 2600+ and 128MB 9700 Pro. Get 1152x864 with Medium Quality here.

But that's not what the topic is about...it's about the Athlon64 being the "best" performing processor for Doom 3. The article that I quoted it from also gives peeps some insight on possible processor upgrade options.

The on-die memory controller helps the A64 tons...no need for gobs of L2 & L3 cache to boost the framerate as is evident on the Intel side of things (the P4 processors with larger caches outperformed similarly clocked P4's with less cache by relatively significant margins).