Paradigm SHIFT: MainGear's Unique Gaming Rig Tested
DiRT 2
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Dirt 2 is a racing game released in September 2009, and is the sequel to Colin McRae: Dirt. Codemasters delayed the PC version of Dirt 2 so that they could enhance their Ego engine with DirectX 11 effects. The engine displays certain bleeding-edge rendering technologies like hardware-driven tessellation, which is used for a more detailed audience, tessellated clot as well as a more realistic water that has lifelike ripples, waves and splash effects. DX11 also affords the game more impressive post-rendering motion blur, filtered soft shadows and lighting effects. Dirt 2 is also a solid benchmark for multi-core processors since DX11 is designed to take advantage of multi-threaded system architectures. |
Origin Genesis: 1 or 2 x Radeon HD 5970, Maingear Shift: 2 x GeForce GTX 480
DiRT 2 gives the Shift's pair of GTX 480's a solid start; NVIDIA's high-end Fermi compares well against ATI's HD 5970 in terms of price/performance ratio. All three video card configurations handled the game with ease, even with detail levels set full.
