Half Life II: Episode 2

Half Life 2: Episode 2 is the newest installment in Valve’s long running Half Life series and this is without a doubt the best looking game in the series. For this benchmark a typical 10 minute exterior gameplay sequence was prerecorded and then played back using the in-game timedemo feature. The results were recorded with FRAPS.


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With the overclock on the BFG 9800GTX OCX, it is able to stay quite far ahead of the stock card but it can’t quite stand up to the performance levels of the HD3870X2. That being said, we can see that the second AA is turned off, nearly every card flies face-first into a little something called CPU bottlenecking.