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Both the Call of Duty 2 and F.E.A.R. tests were taken from their respective demo's as retail copy's of either are not yet available.

We used maximum settings for Call of Duty 2, with Vsync disabled.

The X1800XT is noticeably faster than the pack at running Cod2, but it get's a little tighter in the middle of the pack, with the X1800 XL losing to the 7800 GT by a hair with filtering and high resolution set.

For testing F.E.A.R., we set everything at maximum, with the exception of sound quality, which was set to low. We also decided upon disabling soft shadows and setting the shadow quality to medium as both incur a large performance hit which hurts the usefulness of the results.

The FEAR benchmark ended up causing no end of trouble for us, and the results still ended up all over the place. We're not sure what caused the skewed results, but we're guessing that driver optimizations from both sides have not quite been perfected yet. This might make sense seeing as the only cards not running on Beta drivers were the X850 XT and X800 XL, and both manage very strong scores, with the X850 beating all of the other cards by a wide margin with filtering on.