Review: Want a high-end system? PC Specialist Apollo Q260GTX may well be the one

by Tarinder Sandhu on 22 July 2008, 07:03

Tags: PC Specialist

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Our gaming test harnesses the regular Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts benchmark we use in our high-end graphics-card reviews.

The GeForce GTX 260 comfortably beats out a GeForce 8800 GTS 512 in this 24in LCD-friendly test. We'd hazard that you could play most games at 1,920x1,200 with reasonably high image-quality settings.




2D load is calculated by running four instances of Prime95 Torture Test in concurrent fashion, and 3D load adds our Company of Heroes benchmark to the mix.

We're surprised by how frugal the Apollo Q260GTX is, frankly, and it power-matches the lesser specification from the HEXUS machine.