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Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB Passive Review

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     April 14, 2009

Tom Clancy’s Hawx (DX10)


Even though HawX has a built-in benchmarking tool, we found that it did not provide accurate enough results needed to reflect what actual in-game performance would be. Thus, we played through the first 6 minutes of a mission and recorded the results with FRAPS.

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