2D Performance

To give us an idea of general system performance, we benchmarked our £400 gaming PC both before and after overclocking across a range of fairly typical application benchmarks.

As you'll see below, there are some decent performance gains to be had as a result of increasing our processor, memory and GPU clock speeds. All of these benchmarks focus on the processor, memory and general system performance - none of these applications are GPU-accelerated today, but that's not to say they won't be in the future.

That said, we believe that it's important to build a balanced PC - one that's able to deliver good performance in both CPU and GPU accelerated applications. This is something we've been talking about for years now and when you've got a tight budget like the one we're working to today, it's especially important that you choose the right mix of components.







The average performance increase we saw as a result of the overclock was around 50 percent, which isn't too shabby when you consider just how much this machine costs as a baseline.