Crysis is a very heavy DirectX 10 game. We updated this game to version 1.2.1 and used the HOC Crysis Benchmarking Utility to help us collecting data. Since we don’t think the default demo based on the island map stresses the video card the way we want, we used the HOC core demo available with the abovementioned utility. We ran this demo under three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680x
1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600, first with image quality set to “low” and then with image quality set to “high.” Since all video cards achieved a number of frames per second below 10 at 2560×1600 with image details set to “high,” we are not including this test as the results aren’t reliable. We ran each test twice and discarded the first result, as usually the first run achieves a lower score compared to the subsequent runs since the game loses time loading files. The results below are the average number of frames per second (FPS) achieved by each card.
Element S is a high-quality steel mid-tower case from Thermaltake, bringing interesting features such as two 2.5” hard disk drive bays. Let’s take a look at this new case.
Our review of HighPoint RocketRAID 2302, a simple RAID controller with two SATA-300 ports and two eSATA-300 ports based on PCI Express and supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD.
Let’s take a look at the most basic video card from the Radeon value/mid-range R7 series, the XFX Radeon R7 240 with 2 GB of DDR3 memory, and see if this inexpensive video card is strong enough for casual gaming.
