System Builder Marathon, March 2010: System Value Compared

Benchmark Results: DiRT 2

DiRT 2 Demo defaults to the highest DirectX version of the graphics card, handing a DirectX 11 advantage to the $1,500 and $3,000 builds, while handicapping the $750 machine with DirectX 10.1. However, we still don’t expect to see any performance problems, since the game is almost playable with integrated graphics.

We believe the cheapest system could have pushed the DiRT 2 Demo to our maximum settings, but again, that's still not a likely pairing to such an inexpensive build.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.