One of the most hyped games of 2008, Far Cry 2 had some big shoes to fill. It was built to be the next best thing since well... Far Cry I suppose. Combining an open-world game play with highly detailed graphics, physics and AI, what more could we possibly want? The game puts us in the body of a malaria inflicted mercenary hunting down the "Jackal" in the heart of Africa, in a bid to stop an ongoing conflict between two rival factions. The storyline can be hard to follow sometimes but I'm no game reviewer, so let's concentrate on the graphics and performance. After all, we all need to know if our hardware will be able to handle the scorching savannah burning at the hands of our flamethrowers.








At stock speed, the Gigabyte falls behind the other motherboards by a few FPS. Normally results vary very little in gaming so it's not welcoming to see this kind of drop in performance. Overclocking manages to rectify the problem but not enough for it to outperform its main rival, the P6X58D-E. Fully overclocked, there is a very marginal drop in FPS across all settings marking 4GHz to be the best compromise between clock speed and performance.