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. Th
is configuration we are calling “high” on our charts and tables. We updated the game up to the June 9th 2008 patch.
Radeon HD 5700 series is the first mid-range DirectX 11 video cards to arrive on the market. Let’s now see the performance of Radeon HD 5770 from XFX and see if it is a good buy.
Our review of Radeon X1950 Pro Extreme from PowerColor, which comes with a high performance low noise VGA cooler from Artic Cooling (Accelero X2). Check it out.
Let’s test the Cooler Master Nepton 140XL, a sealed liquid cooling system for CPUs, with a big 140 mm radiator cooled by two 140 mm fans in push-pull configuration.
