World in Conflict Tests

The latest version of Massive's proprietary Masstech engine utilizes DX10 technology and features advanced lighting and physics effects, and allows for a full 360 degree range of camera control. Massive's MassTech engine scales down to accommodate a wide range of PC specifications, if you've played a modern PC game within the last two years, you'll be able to play World in Conflict.

World in Conflict's FPS-like control scheme and 360-degree camera make its action-strategy game play accessible to strategy fans and fans of other genres... if you love strategy, you'll love World in Conflict. If you've never played strategy, World in Conflict is the strategy game to try.

Based on the test results charted below it's clear that WiC doesn't place a limit on the maximum frame rate (to prevent a waste of power) which is good for full-spectrum benchmarks like ours, but bad for electricity bills. The average frame rate is shown for each resolution in the chart below. World in Conflict just begins to place demands on the graphics processor at the 1920x1280 resolution, so we'll jump ahead for our consensus.

Judging from the landslide performance charted above, some games do better than others at showing the benefit of Intel's new X58 platform when paired to the Core i7 processor. Quad-cores abound, the memory architecture makes all the difference. QPI obviously offers the near-instant turn-around from commands that newer graphics hardware and games can benefit from.

While the Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME performed identically to the Intel DX58SO with 56 FPS on average, the GA-X48T-DQ6 suffered a lowly 27 FPS average. Memory intensive applications have proven their point: the Core i7 platform wins. In our next section, I give my final thoughts on Intel's X58 platform and the new Core i7 processor series.

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