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Dirt 3 is a rallying video game and the third in the Dirt series of the “Colin McRae Rally” series, developed and published by Codemasters. However, the “Colin McRae” tag has been completely removed from this iteration, following the untimely death of Colin McRae.
We used the in-game benchmark to test the performance of the system using the following settings.
Resolution: 1280×720
DX11
AA: None
Preset: Medium
The AMD A3 3400 struggles to maintain solid framerates at 720p, dropping to 13 frames per second in intensive sections of the environment. When we added the discrete graphics card however the game was significantly smoother throughout, maintaining playable frame rates at these settings.
£50 for the cpu and £50 for the gigabyte mobo is pretty good isnt it ? id always been put off bying a system like this for my tv as the motherboards were often well over £100 even if the processors were cheap.
im tempted now. shall try and talk my credit card into accepting the charge.
Nice setup on Dabs for these, makes it easier to work out where to get the bits,
only thing is, they should have made some complete systems with memory, power supply etc, took a few quid from them. would have worked a lot better. seems a bit ‘half assed’ having a page with the A4’s and motherboards and nothing else. these are ideal for students who maybe need the help
Hybrid crossfire has always sucked, glad to see it hasnt gotten better all of a sudden.
not a bad deal for the price, but its probably slow as molasses for a work machine. Adding a cheap SSD might help.
Im curious, can it be overclocked?
its pretty good value for money. Not sure id want one, but would be good for a server system
I have that proc. and Gigabyte MB and i am very satisfied with that. Plus i got Ati Saphyre graphic card with 1 GB. As it was said, it is really good for lite gaming, and very cheap. And @Brian, yes it can be overclocked! 🙂
Is there such a thing as an intel atom quad core? The 6450 is pretty puny so really adds not very much except heat and cost. A 6670 or better would kick things up a notch/