Benchmark Results: Gaming, Continued
The $625 system struggles to average 30 FPS in World in Conflict, which probably isn’t going to satisfy the typical gamer. This benchmark is greatly affected by processing performance, and at its default speed, the E5200 comes up a bit short.
Overclocking changes this and provides a significant increase of 11 or more FPS at each resolution. Just to add a little extra test data, running the E5200 at 4.3 GHz provided another 3 FPS at 1280x1024, showing just how important the CPU is in this game.
With anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering (AF) cranked up, again we see our overclocked machine yielding solid gains, although the single HD 4850 can not handle the high resolutions. Once overclocked, we once again see the same performance at 1680x1050 4x/16x as we did at 1280x1024 without AA or AF and without overclocking.
Even overclocked, the $625 system barely manages to break 20 FPS at these crushing Forged Alliance settings. As in Crysis, we aren’t being realistic to expect such high settings from a value machine.
With 4xAA enabled, the $625 PC does far better than last month’s $500 PC, but still doesn’t give us much worth looking at besides increased performance once overclocked.
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I'm sorry am I reading the US version? Get some GBP on the go
Even if they did it'd be pointless; $625 is ~£400 or €480. And there is no way in hell you're going to get that spec machine for either of those amounts; rough guesstimate for that spec in Ireland is €630 - WELL over the $800 mark. And that's using really cheap e-tailers (sans eGay) and not counting the various shipping costs, which should bring the whole thing nicely past $850 and up toward $900 if you have a bad day with stock levels and specials. I doubt its THAT much better over there in Blighty.
Summary: A pointless article - it just doesn't apply this side of the Pond.
... But I am interested by the E5200 remarks. It rather hilariously makes a certain recent overclocking article here on Toms look just a little bit ridiculous (an article which claims to OC an E7300 to 4GHz and fails, OCing it to 3.8GHz while claiming the E5200 is a poor part) How far is the E5200 OCd here? 4GHz stable, 4.3GHz possible...
However, I noticed the bit about the FSB issues. Funny coincidence, I had issues a while back too, and while a BIOS update allowed me to push it higher the mobo was nowhere near 400MHz and used a lot of juice to keep it stable. Many others seem to have difficulty getting the E5200 stable when the FSB pushes past 400MHz as well, even on FSB1600-rated boards. Hmm...
I'm sorry am I reading the US version? Get some GBP on the go
"$ = £" mate...
Ah I look at those prices and dream (of cheap computers)...
Bob