Battlefield 4: Walkthrough, Gameplay / Benchmark Series.

Heya, I told ya that I'm gonna be benchmarking the game! So Next few posts including this morning's High End Testing will be part of what I call benchmarking for Playable settings. Been doing a lot of tweaks here and there. And getting all this set up isn't easy at all.

Now here's my 3 testing stations.

 

My 3 Testing Stations: Laptop - Aftershock X11 / Clevo W110ER, Medium End Core i5 2500K with Radeon 5850, Main rig at desk with i7 2600K and GTX 680

There's a random Compaq Presario there on the floor. I was on the middle of restoring it for my brother's office. 

Benchmarking this game will be a pain but it'll give you a rough idea what you'll expect for all my tests. How this testing methodology is that the series doubles as a Walkthrough Series.

RIG ONE:
'My Pride and Joy, my very first DIY computer'

Core i7 2600K OC 4.4 GHz,
16GB RAM Corsair Vengeance
Corsair H70
128GB SSD (OCZ Vertex 4)
1000W Corsair HX 1000
ASUS P8P67M PRO
Fractal Design Define R3

Testing Methodology: Mission 1 Operation Baku, at 1920 x 1080

Graphical Settings:
1920 x 1080, Maximum Possible settings.

All pretty high end stuff. GTX 680, Overclocked i7 2600K, 16GB RAM, what more you want. However, In the future, I'll do a testing for a GTX 780, which is the ZOTAC AMP! Edition with the revised Price Cuts. Now the ZOTAC AMP!'s incarnation compared to the reference GTX 780 is totally different. It carries the highest factory clocks of all GTX 780s available in the market. And having it price cut is just so nice right now. So currently I'm involved in this Limited Mass Order. As to SGD pricing, I can't break out the cost. But it's a tiny bit cheaper than the Reference GTX 780 at stock after price cuts.

Video of the testing: Operation Baku, Full Mission Playthrough

RIG TWO: Aftershock X11 - Laptop Seated on the Floor
'World's Smallest Gaming Laptop in existance'

Core i7 3630QM
8GB RAM
2GB DDR3 nVidia GeForce GT 650M / 2GB DDR3 GT 640 OC Desktop
Testing Methodology: Mission 2 Operation Shanghai, at 1366 x 768.
331.65 Driver

Graphical Settings
1366 x 768
Anti Aliasing Off, Post AA Off, Ambient Occlusion: Off
Everything else save Post Processing (Medium) and Texture Quality (Ultra) set at High.

Also known as another brand of Elric Phares' Ultraportable Laptop. The smallest laptop in the world with pretty beefy graphics that matches the GTX 560M. Can the smallest gaming laptop in the world play BF4? Yes it does, and at pretty decent Graphics Settings at that. You'll be happy that since the release, the performance on this game is WAY better now than back in BETA.

RIG THREE: My First decent Gaming PC, middle of the screen
'This rig has seen so many modifications'

Core i5 2500K
8GB RAM
1GB ATI Radeon 5850
Testing Methodology: Third Mission at 1680 x 1050 and 1440 x 900.
Beta Driver

The Rig that I first bought will probably lie in the middle in terms of performance. However bear in mind it does have the least video memory. Pushing to 1080p will be a bit too much even if it's operating on a 256-bit bus. However 1680 x 1050 and 1440 x 900 is still pretty darn decent. So nothing to complain at all if you tune your graphical settings to somewhere between Ultra and High at these Resolutions.