Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft, and while it continues the Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, this game is built on its own in-house engine and has no association - other than its name - to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now. We used a retail version of the game and the in-built gameplay demo set to High-Very High settings under DirectX 10.
Far Cry 2
1680x1050 0AA 0AF, Very High Settings
Core 2 Duo E8400 OC (2x4.0GHz, 1,760MHz FSB, DDR3)
Core 2 Duo E8400 OC (2x4.0GHz, 1,760MHz FSB, DDR2)
Because the Far Cry 2 Core i7 performance is poor, yet the price is respectively higher, the CPUs alone don't come out well here - the Core i7 965 represents a 66 percent drop in value compared to the baseline Core i7 920 and even when massively overclocked to 4GHz it only pulls out an 11 percent value regain.
In contrast the overclocked E8400, Q6600 and AMD Phenoms offer superb value in Far Cry 2 as they all exist in their own chunk in the upper third of the table at +70 percent and upwards relative value.
The great value of the AMD platform makes it a clear leader here, and the DDR2 Core 2 CPUs, even when overclocked, can't match it in terms of relative price : performance. Clearly, if you want the best performance, you have to pay for it - but the more you do pay the less you get in return. All the Core i7's don't offer an attractive or even cost effective platform for playing Far Cry 2 here - the older Core 2 CPU's with DDR2 provide far better value.
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