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by Ian Cutress on July 14, 2016 9:00 AM ESTAlien: Isolation
If first person survival mixed with horror is your sort of thing, then Alien: Isolation, based off of the Alien franchise, should be an interesting title. Developed by The Creative Assembly and released in October 2014, Alien: Isolation has won numerous awards from Game Of The Year to several top 10s/25s and Best Horror titles, ratcheting up over a million sales by February 2015. Alien: Isolation uses a custom built engine which includes dynamic sound effects and should be fully multi-core enabled. We take the average frame rate as our marker with a scripted version of the built-in benchmark.
For this test we used the following settings with our graphics cards:
| Alien Isolation Settings | |||
| Resolution | Quality | ||
| Low GPU | Integrated Graphics | 1280x720 | Ultra |
| ASUS R7 240 1GB DDR3 | |||
| Medium GPU | MSI GTX 770 Lightning 2GB | 1920x1080 | Ultra |
| MSI R9 285 Gaming 2G | |||
| High GPU | ASUS GTX 980 Strix 4GB | 1920x1080 | Ultra |
| MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G | |||
Alien Isolation in this case favors a higher IPC, and so as a result the Intel processors are quite high on the list. The biggest differences are when using the high-end graphics cards: the R9 290X and the GTX 980, which give a 10-20% increase in favor of the Pentium.
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coder111 - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
Wow, another Asus A6 user. I still use my K73TA daily. Quite happy with it. Never tried overclocking, but now that you mention it I will.How does the cooling hold up? I have had my laptop shutdown several times due to temperature getting too high after heavy APU+dGPU use.
I just wish there was a way to replace 6550M with something faster...
TheinsanegamerN - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
Repaste the parts. The paste on that thing is half a decade old.Also, undervolt the chips. You can cut a ton of voltage off of the CPU with k10stat.
If you really want to go DIY, there are those like me that cut a hole in the bottom of the laptop and put a grill over the fan, that lowered temps by about 20C for me.
coder111 - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
Hi,Thanks for ideas! I'm on Linux, so I'll see if there are k10stat alternatives on Linux. I'll definitely repaste the parts. And I'll see if I can do the grill on the bottom as well...
--Coder
coder111 - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
Could you post the pics of your grill on the bottom somewhere?Thanks
TheinsanegamerN - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
That laptop is long gone, im afraid. The chassis did not hold up very well to my constant moving.There was a forum on notebookreview about doing said mod, but the pictures are no longer available. the waybackmachine might be able to provide pics.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/k53ta-bbr6...
TheinsanegamerN - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
I had the exact same laptop! I went with an a4 to force the dGPU, since AMD kept screwing up the ability to choose which GPU you wanted to use. 3.2 GHz dual core was amazing.Sushisamurai - Thursday, July 14, 2016 - link
I like this pseudo-new review format. Very clean, and the shout out to manufacture/companies was a nice touch. I think u should include if the SSD's are MLC or TLC In that brief summary for those who forget.keg504 - Thursday, July 14, 2016 - link
What does OCCT mean? It doesn't seem to be explained in the articleArnulf - Thursday, July 14, 2016 - link
http://www.ocbase.com/ ?keg504 - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
Ah, thanks. A cursory search of google gave me many different results for OCCT