DFI X48 LT T2R: Floats like a Butterfly…

Company of Heroes

Despite having been around for a while, Company of Heroes is still one of the best strategy games available. The game is heavily GPU limited but also requires brute CPU processing power to keep things smooth during heavy action. The built-in benchmark is very responsive to GPU as well as CPU scaling, hence we think it provides good insight into overall system gaming power.

DFI scores lower at stock speeds due to the very loose default BIOS settings the board employs. At 4 GHz, the results are a little closer; either way the frame rates of all the boards should ensure solid game play at these settings. Actually, we could not notice any difference in game play between the boards at stock or overclocked settings. At these frame rates, one board scoring better than the other really does not make any difference unless you like showing off for others.

DFI's board falls behind EVGA across the range of testing at higher resolutions - certainly not in an excessive manner, but a victory certainly would have been more inspiring. Having benchmarked the board through a variety of tests, if squeezing performance is important to you, a wiser operating point will undoubtedly come at 450FSBX9 on the DFI board - if you find you can get away with a tRD of 6 or so. At 500 FSB, the board will not run a value of 7, which may have helped the scores by a few FPS here and there.