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MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | Micro-Star International |
| Product: | MSI Big Bang XPower2 |
| Date: | Fri, Mar 09, 2012 - 08:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat DirectX 11 Benchmark
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX11" as our renderer.
In order to give our XFX Radeon HD 6950 a workout on our systems we cranked the image quality preset to Ultra.
We also ran the Multisample Anti-Aliasing at 4x and Tessellation is enabled.
Benchmark Results: The MSI Big Bang XPower II maintained the top spot in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat at 1280x1024 with an average of 109.1 frames per second. Firing up the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: COP benchmark at 1920x1080 the Big Bang XPower II fell to the second spot with an average of 75.5 frames per second, .5 fps behind the ASRock X79 Extreme9 which averaged 76 frames per second.
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Page 1 - MSI Big Bang XPower II
Page 2 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Retail Packaging Page 3 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherbaord Layout Page 4 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherbaord BIOS Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp1 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark Page 7 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark Page 8 - Batman: Arkham City Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat DirectX 11 Benchmark Page 10 - Aliens Vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark Page 11 - Intel X79 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Page 12 - Intel X79 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Page 13 - System Power Consumption Page 14 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Overclocking Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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