Half-Life 2 is a popular franchise and we benchmark the video cards using Episode Two with the aid of HOC Half-Life 2 Episode Two benchmarking utility using the “HOC Demo 1” provided by this program. We ran the game in three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600, under two scenarios. First with quality set to maximum, bilinear filtering and anti-aliasing set to x0. This configuration we are calling “low” on the charts and tables below. Then we maxed out image quality settings, enabling x16 anisotropic filtering and 16xQCS anti-aliasing. This configuration we are calling “high” on our charts and tables. We updated the game up to the June 9th 2008 patch. The results below are the average number of frames per second (FPS) achieved by each card.
The ZenFone 5 is a new smartphone from ASUS. It has a five-inch, 1280×720 HD screen, Intel Atom CPU, 8 Mpixel camera, and runs Android 4.4. Let’s take a good look at it!
We tested another CPU cooler from Scythe, Big Shuriken, which has low profile in order to fit SFF cases, 120 mm fan and four copper heatpipes. Check out its performance in this review.
We added five new thermal compounds to our previous roundup, for a total of 50 different thermal compounds from major brands. We also tried another thermal compound from the kitchen: butter.
