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11 - Game testing & power Consumption

 

 

Gaming: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2

Don't mistake the PC version for being a port of the Xbox 360 game. The PC version has larger and different levels than those featured on the Xbox 360, as well as a different graphics engine and style of gameplay.

The game itself looks great and the intricate physics modeling seen in the single-player version is still active in the multiplayer version.

There are all sorts of other interactions you'll encounter in multiplayer.
For instance, aluminum cans litter the street and stepping on them not only kicks them around, but also creates a loud sound that may betray your presence to the enemy.

And here are the results done with the newer GRAW2. Image Quality settings:

  • Edge Smoothing Anti Aliasing
  • 16x anisotropic filtering
  • Dynamic shadows HIGH

Here again we see similar behavior, although in 1024x768 the CPU limitation kicked in hard for the AMD processors. But with a 325 USD difference, let's again look at 1280x1024.

 

Gaming: Call of Duty 4

Activision recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the next installment in the popular war game series. Moving away from the World War II setting, Modern Warfare instead centers around a conflict involving Russia and the Middle East. And hey, you even get to die ... and then continue the game in the past.

Amazing look at that ... interestingly enough COD4 benefits in the higher resolutions from more processor power. The difference is a little bigger here; but at the other side  .. you just saved 325 USD.

Power consumption

Alright then, let's monitor a couple of pretty important items.

We'll now show you some tests we have done on overall power consumption of the PC, and the overall power consumption is just really impressive in both IDLE and PEAK states.

Okay let's analyze, focus on the lowest result, that's the mainboard with integrated graphics unit activated and the X2 4850 processor. That's just amazing power consumption to be honest.

Throughout the CPU scaling in idle mode this mainboard is just utilizing very little power. Once we add a Radeon HD 3870 and start to stress the CPU and GPU, things obviously start to differ. But that's still pretty darn good. I think this mainboard is the lowest power consuming product we have tested in a long time.

Again, impressive. Onwards .. to the conclusion.

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