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Considering all the exciting news coming from E3 2011 last month, it's a good time to start planning your next PC upgrade. You don't want to be left out when all of the new PC game releases land this fall, do you?
Fortunately, the desktop PCs category is full of attractive options for gamers. Here are a handful of machines equipped with the latest and greatest hardware, tailored to a wide range of budgets.
A Little More Than Just the Basics
The AMD Radeon HD 6670 graphics card is an inexpensive part, but a stalwart performer--the card achieved 42.6 frames per second on our Unreal Tournament tests, at a resolution of 2560 by 1600 at the highest settings. A bit of perspective here: Those were the highest possible settings, on a 30-inch monitor. You'll need to scale the settings down for higher-end games, but the MicroFlex 23B makes for a compelling investment if your needs aren't too demanding.
The MicroFlex 23B also includes a Blu-ray drive, which is pretty much an anomaly in the budget-desktops market.
I Scoff at Your System Requirements
Gaming performance comes courtesy of a single Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 graphics card. On our Call of Duty graphics benchmark, it generated 79 frames per second--once again, at the highest possible settings on a massive 30-inch monitor. Maingear's Vybe Super Stock is fairly small as cases go, but it still has a bit of upgrade room should you decide to toss in another graphics board later on.
Gaze Upon My Mighty PC, and Tremble
Our benchmarks? Ravaged. The Genesis earned a WorldBench 6 score of 233, and produced 101 frames per second in the graphically intensive S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. Honestly, when the time came to ship it back, we were sad to see it go.
The results are impressive, as the Convoy received a mark of 204 on our WorldBench 6 suite, and generated 224 frames per second on our Unreal Tournament benchmark.
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