Low-Power Gaming: AMD's E-350 Vs. Intel Atom D525 And Ion 2
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Low-power PC platforms are obviously not built for gaming, but we punish two AMD and Intel systems with popular 3D titles anyway. The results don't shock and awe, but sometimes pleasantly surprise.
Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2
We’ll switch gears to Just Cause 2, a fun third-person destructive sandbox game.
At the lowest details, Just Cause 2 remains a very pretty graphics engine, but the benchmark results are far too slow to consider the game playable.
Verdict:
Just Cause 2 is not playable on these platforms.
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tacoslave so the gpu's in modern consoles are around the same as the e-350? since these gpus are mainly cpu bound? Also should have put counterstrike fun and not demanding.Reply -
Can they make a video game that features a Monopolistic Chip Company who threatens and bribes computer manufacturers to be zombies?Reply
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warjunkieltu Why are you guys not testing some good quality freeware first person shooters, that could run smoothly on those low end PCs? For example:Reply
Urban Terror (my favorite one), Open Arena, Alien Arena? Or at least Quake live?
Cause it's ridiculous to test all those latest shooters on such low end machines... -
silverblue I was just thinking about reinstalling either of the Star Trek: Armada titles now I've moved to Windows 7, just to see if it removes the stuttering I experienced in XP. Good to see one of those titles here.Reply
Good review; was kinda wishing for the HL2:LC or some previous-gen UT titles though. :) -
nevertell You could've tried overclocking them :DReply
But seriously, the ION seems to be bottlenecked by the cpu. -
rolli59 Low end graphics! How about testing them with popular MMOG for addicts that travel, but like the portability of netbooks!Reply -
gondor Thank you for including older titles in your comparison ! I hope you'll be able to include even more of them in any future tests to give each major game engine of the era a fair chance :)Reply