iBuypower Revolt 2 Review: A Powerful, Portable Gaming Desktop

Name: IBuypower Revolt 2
Brand: IBuypower

by Joshua Gulick — Thursday, June 16, 2016, 12:50 PM EDT

Futuremark 3DMark Fire Strike Test

Simulated Gaming Performance

The next test we chose was Futuremark’s graphically intense 3DMark Fire Strike. This benchmark is designed specifically for gaming PCs and has both Normal and Extreme modes. Normal runs at 1920x1080 while Extreme runs at 2560x1440. We used the extreme preset on this system.

As we expected, the iBuypower Revolt 2 and Digital Storm Bolt 3 are duking it out. The systems provided similar scores in this test, with the Bolt 3 taking the lead in the overall score and the Revolt 2 edging out its opponent in the Combined test.

Tags: IBuyPower, LAN party, Revolt, Skylake, core-i7, gtx 980 ti

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.