CyberPowerPC Zeus EVO Lightning 2000 SE System Review

We ran a series of system benchmarks on the Zeus EVO Lightning to give us a baseline of system performance.  The effective system speed for these tests was 4.7Ghz with AMD Turbo enabled which would allow the processor to throttle up to 5Ghz when needed.

Fire Strike is a new DirectX 11 showcase benchmark designed for high-performance gaming PCs.  The benchmark features real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and really pushes the limits of what DirectX 11 can do.

Benchmark Settings
Performance Settings - Benchmarks Only

There are six tests in 3DMark 11. The four graphics tests use advanced rendering techniques to compile the scene including tessellation, volumetric lighting, depth of field and post processing effects. The physics test uses rigid body simulation to stress the CPU while the combined test features CPU and GPU workloads. The CPU handles rigid-body physics while the GPU is tasked with volumetric lighting, tessellation, post processing as well as simulating soft-body physics using DirectCompute.

Benchmark Settings
Performance Settings - Benchmarks Only

3DMark Vantage is a full DirectX 10 compliant synthetic benchmark designed to test the DirectX 10 abilities of your video card and computing power of your PC.  After the benchmark completes you are given a report card of the performance and are given the option to submit the results to Futuremark where they can be ranked against others with similar hardware.

Benchmark Settings
Performance Settings - Benchmarks Only

Crysis 2 is a CryEngine 3 powered game designed to set the standards for high quality graphics.  The game engine has been upgraded to support DX11 and features Nvidia technologies such as native 3D Vision support.  We are using the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool and the Central Park map to capture framerates.

Benchmark Settings
Quality Ultra
Anti Aliasing 4x
Map Central Park
API DirectX 11
Edge AA Edge AA
Hi-Res Textures Off

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is a first person shooter based around the destruction of a nuclear power plant. It uses the XRAY 1.6 Engine, features DirectX 11 support, and it includes real-time GPU tessellation. The maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent.

Benchmark Settings
Preset Ultra
Renderer Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting DirectX 11
MSAA 4x
MSAA for A-tested object DX10 Style
SSAO Default
SSAO Quality High
Tessellation Enabled
Test SunShafts