 With its factory tuning and data center DNA, an Intel 730 series SSD is an amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts. Hey there guys, welcome to my FIF benchmarking overview video. We're going to be testing things today on the standard test bench of 4960X clocked at 4.0 GHz, about 16 gigs of RAM clocked at 1866 MHz, and a variance of GPUs whose overclocking settings you can find in the GPU overclocking doc linked below this video. So I broke up the graphics cards into three tiers. There's the extreme tier with $500 plus graphics cards which is running on very high preset with one thing changed so that it goes to custom which is anisotropic filtering at 16x running at 1600p. That's the crazy tier. Then one step down we've got around 300 to 400 dollar tier where we're running just on the very high preset at 16x anisotropic filtering but at 1080p not 1600p like the tier above. And then one step down which is where we're running at 1080p again but just on the high preset and no custom values at all and that's at about the $150-$170 range. Two things guys, these numbers are very subject to change. Nvidia and AMD will assuredly be releasing drivers in the future as they always do and they will probably be including optimizations for Thief so both of these numbers for either teams could go up in varying amounts we're not entirely sure but for now you can just use it as kind of educated guess on how well this card will perform in the future if you do buy one or if you have one already. Also another thing is these numbers were pulled from Newegg.com which is an American website and especially AMD cards pricing on this website is very skewed because in the States especially pricing for AMD cards has gone a little bit nuts because of coin mining so if you're someone who's not in the States looking at this video maybe a card falls into another bracket so I would highly suggest checking out and comparing the dollar value of these cards on your own especially if you're outside of the States. Alright guys so here's the benchmarking run so you guys can either replicate it on your own or just see generally what I'm doing. We start just outside of the main hideout in Thief and then well this isn't a crazy action game or is it supposed to be played as a crazy action game so unlike a lot of my benchmarks I'm not gonna run around killing as many people as I can within the two minutes I'm actually just gonna kind of go around and do some things that you might do in Thief for two minutes and you'll notice that not a fair amount of it is actually just looking in different places or like crouching at certain times and crouching through certain areas that's mainly for timing so I can actually easily replicate this run. As you can see here I've actually already looted this house on a previous playthrough but I knew exactly where the house was and I knew I could navigate through it quite easily so I went back there for this playthrough. Once I get through this window here I had to save a few times to find a proper save for this as there's two guards in this courtyard. I can't waste a ton of time trying to sneak around the guards because that's not gonna be the easiest thing to replicate so I tried to find a save file where I could actually do this properly so if you're trying to replicate this on your own you might have to save a couple times to try and make sure that the guards are in the right spot but it's not too bad. One thing I use is the sweep mechanic as you saw right there which is built into the game to actually traverse without being seen too easily. I try to get light late areas, dark areas, sweeping mechanics, crouching, running, walking, all that kind of stuff in this benchmark to try and show all the different things that you'll probably be doing in Thief quite actively. We're nearing the end now after we climb down this ladder and as we run up the stairs we're coming right to the end we're gonna crouch here and then shift through the light and then the benchmark should end right about here. 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