Now we have the first of our game tests. AMD's Phenom II's (and to some extent their budget Athlon II's) are well documented as performing well from a gaming point of view so let's see how those extra two cores do with Blacksite.
Blacksite.
The 1055T does indeed perform well. Indeed, once clocked the minimum framerate (the most important as far as I'm concerned) at every tested resolution either matches or gets very close to the average framerate count recorded at stock speed. Even at 1920 with every setting on high gameplay was butter smooth and stutter free. Looking to previous reviews the bump in performance certainly goes in line with the additional available cores.
Dead Space the survival horror game is a useful test for a system and seems to scale well with CPU, GPU and resolution changes.
Dead Space.
Once again the 1055T doesn't disappoint with good numbers across the board as regards playability. I would say though that with the 1055T there's virtually no reason to overclock to glean additional performance at higher resolutions with this game. Average and Minimum framerates at 1680 and 1920 are virtually identical despite that 1000MHz overclock.
