¿Do you have an "old" PC? ¿Any intention to play Half Life 2: Episodio 2? Then you won't want to miss this review where Anandtech takes a look at a good deal of processors and graphics cards to see how they handle both indoors and outdoors situations.

The processors: they chose basically among dual core offerings, which is good given their current price point. From a Pentium E2140 to a Core 2 Duo E6750, from an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ to a 6400+. Several quads (QX6850, Q6700 and Q6600) are also included. Aside from the fact that, once again, Intel tops all the charts, it's interesting to see the Core 2 distributed in groups that relate to cache size. Over the weeks prior to it's release, there was quite some controversy regarding Conroe's dependency on L2. Now that we have 1, 2 and 4 MB models, we see that Half-Life 2 is affected by it. So it is by FSB, quite a benchmarking tool, this game.

The graphics cards: they didn't come short on them, neither. We get entry level, mainstream and performance segment representatives from both nVidia and ATI. All of them are tested at different resolutions, under indoors and outdoors scenarios and even with some AA benchs.

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