The PCO Group Intel I7 Gaming PC

Race Driver: Grid is a visually taxing game that perhaps represents a challenge to any graphics system. The benchmark was run a total of 5 times using Fraps with the highest and lowest scores removed leaving the remaining 3 runs to calculate the average fps.

 

Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long gameplay demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU’s using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.

 

 

The Last Remnant is a role-playing game developed by Square Enix that uses the Unreal 3 engine to do something slightly different to its accustomed FPS style. Square were kind enough to release a benchmarking tool that ran through a set sequence in order to gauge how a system would cope with the title. The benchmark was run a total of 5 times, the median 3 results were averaged to give the scores shown below.

 

Results Obervations
More impressive results form the system in the games tests, nothing dropping below more than acceptable playing levels. The GTX295 keeping both CoD4 and GRID safely over 100FPS even at the highest resolution, Only dipping below the ton mark when The Last Remnant benchmark hit 1900×1200.