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

GTA V, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Thief

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

We tested out three other fairly graphically demanding games on the Revolt 2 as well— Grand Theft Auto V, Thief, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. We’re in the process of building our comparison pool here, but we have data from the iBuypower Revolt 2’s closest competitor in our previous tests: the Digital Storm Bolt 3.

As you can see, the Revolt 2 is a solid gamer. Still, it rarely managed to pull ahead of Digital Storm’s SFF contender. Both systems look good in these benchmarks. You can get better frame rates with beefier gaming PCs, but for their size, these SFFs are proving to be capable gamers.

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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.