Arctic MC001-BD Blu-Ray Entertainment Center Review

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest offering from Futuremark, taking full advantage of DirectX 11 by utilising tessellation features and volumetric lighting. It takes your graphics and CPU hardware to the edge to simulate the most extreme conditions whilst working as a stand point to compare results with other users online.

3DMark gives us a nice comparison to use when looking at how this PC compares to other similar devices and the discrete graphics card does its job sufficiently.

Unigine Heaven 2.5

Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine™ engine. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies and utilises the full effect of DirectX 11 and allows you to configure shaders, tessellation and quality settings to your own personal choice.

Keeping focus on the graphics element of this machine, we see an average FPS of 2.6 showing that gaming isn’t really this machines strong point, though we did test at default settings, and higher scores can be had if you lower the resolution and quality options.

Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is a first-person shooter game based in the Russian metro system. Metro 2033 is very similar to the much loved game STALKER as it is developed by the same programmers. The game utilises DirectX 11 and relies heavily on tessellation features and is considered to be one of the most graphics intense games on the market.

Metro was very much the same story, though we did see a slight decrease in performance at 1920×1080 when overclocked.