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F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. shows us that SLI is a requirement for maintaining playable framerates at 1600x1200 with no AA/AF, and 1280x1024/1600x1200 with AA/AF. You simply cannot get away with a single card when it comes to this game at the highest of resolutions. Even at 1024x768 with AA/AF, the BFG GeForce 7900 GTX just nearly scrapes 60 FPS. However, as we've seen in the past, ATI's cards always seem to suffer less of a performance hit with AA/AF enabled, and F.E.A.R. is no different. While the X1900 XT is just behind the single 7900s without AA/AF, the tables turn once we do enable those features -- and the X1900 XT ends up 5 FPS ahead.

Serious Sam 2

Serious Sam 2 is one of those games that makes it difficult to call an SLI victory in. Only at 1600x1200 with AA and AF can I really say that SLI might be a requirement, but any other settings ought to produce very playable framerates, even with the single 7900 GTX OC. The scores in general are a bit of a mish-mash, with the X1900 XT being the only card to show us a foggy victory in two of the runs.