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ECS GeForce GTS 450 1GB Black Edition Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS)
Product: NBGTS450-1GPI-F
Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty DX11 Performance Benchmark

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. It is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, and two upcoming expansion packs, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has had a successful launch, selling three million copies worldwide in less than a month.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Settings

The game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, so we recorded a scene and played it back at normal speed and measured performance with FRAPS. The screen capture above shows the system settings that we were using for StarCraft II. Notice we are running the graphics quality and textures set to Ultra and maxed out everything in the menu. We did not manually enable AA in the drivers though, as we wanted to keep testing simple and consistent to the choices offered in the games settings menus.

Stalker Call of Pripyat Advanced Image Quality Settings

Benchmark Results: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a very popular game today and we found that all of the GeForce GTS 450 cards do very well in this game.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The ECS GTS 450 Video Card
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 6 - Just Cause 2
Page 7 - Metro 2033
Page 8 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 9 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 11 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 12 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 13 - Temperature Testing
Page 14 - Power Consumption
Page 15 - ECS GeForce GTS 450 Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions