GIGABYTE GA-J1800N-D2H Review: Dual Core Bay Trail-D at $69
by Ian Cutress on December 26, 2014 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- Bay Trail
Integrated Gaming Performance
F1 2013
First up is F1 2013 by Codemasters. I am a big Formula 1 fan in my spare time, and nothing makes me happier than carving up the field in a Caterham, waving to the Red Bulls as I drive by (because I play on easy and take shortcuts). F1 2013 uses the EGO Engine, and like other Codemasters games ends up being very playable on old hardware quite easily. In order to beef up the benchmark a bit, we devised the following scenario for the benchmark mode: one lap of Spa-Francorchamps in the heavy wet, the benchmark follows Jenson Button in the McLaren who starts on the grid in 22nd place, with the field made up of 11 Williams cars, 5 Marussia and 5 Caterham in that order. This puts emphasis on the CPU to handle the AI in the wet, and allows for a good amount of overtaking during the automated benchmark. For our integrated test we run at 1280x1024 on Low graphical settings.
Bioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite was Zero Punctuation’s Game of the Year for 2013, uses the Unreal Engine 3, and is designed to scale with both cores and graphical prowess. We test the benchmark using the Adrenaline benchmark tool and the Performance (1280x1024, Low) setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
Tomb Raider
The next benchmark in our test is Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is an AMD optimized game, lauded for its use of TressFX creating dynamic hair to increase the immersion in game. Tomb Raider uses a modified version of the Crystal Engine, and enjoys raw horsepower. We test the benchmark using the Adrenaline benchmark tool and the Performance (1280x1024, Low) setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs is a benchmarking wet dream – a highly complex benchmark that can bring the toughest setup and high resolutions down into single figures. Having an extreme SSAO setting can do that, but at the right settings Sleeping Dogs is highly playable and enjoyable. We run the basic benchmark program laid out in the Adrenaline benchmark tool, at the Performance (1280x1024, Low) setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
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ddriver - Saturday, December 27, 2014 - link
With 6 and 8 TB drives available, I'd say it would be ample for many users. It will still do more good than it would ever do as a gaming box.Plus there is a PCI-E slot, not useful for a GPU, especially with such a weak integrated CPU, but you can plug in a HDD controller card, there are PCI-E x1 controllers with 2, 4 and even 6 SATA ports.
III-V - Saturday, December 27, 2014 - link
The audience of this article is likely going to be able to relate most with gaming benchmarks. Also, have you no curiosity in how hardware like this is able to run modern games?Pretty rude and shortsighted response.
ddriver - Sunday, December 28, 2014 - link
I bet everyone is wondering how good the product is at a task it is not intended for and will never be used at. That's like reviewing clothing based on the way it tastes.ddriver - Sunday, December 28, 2014 - link
BTW I don't think it is very smart of you to call "smart and on the point" "rude and shortsighted" ;) If anything, it makes you rude and shortsighted, and also a hypocrite for calling others what you are...Morawka - Sunday, December 28, 2014 - link
you were rude, now hush and run alongOxford Guy - Saturday, December 27, 2014 - link
What a product was intended for is one thing. Total/overall performance is another. If you're not interested in certain benchmarks that's your business.XZerg - Friday, December 26, 2014 - link
Normally i would avoid cursing but after numerous attempts to provide feedback on stopping these retarded Load Delta Charts I have just lost it.ian - seriously - grow a f**king blub in the brain and realize that the Load Delta Chart is absolutely f**king stupid - especially when you are reviewing a product where Idle numbers matter the most. Just go back to separate Idle and Load charts. Why is it just so f**king hard for you to realize that?!
Throwaway007 - Saturday, December 27, 2014 - link
I signed up just to say the same thing.I bet Ian probably introduces himself on various dating sites as having a penile length delta of 2 inches.
Sounds like this man is hiding something.
BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - link
I usually don't make comments, but lately it seems like this should be mentioned as much as possible. AT articles unceasingly flog OEMs for junk TN panels and the use of mechanical storage in an apparent attempt to change the direction of the industry. I think it's the responsibility of the readers to therefore repeatedly point out that delta charts for power consumption are not what we want.I am glad there was at least a more reasonable PSU used in this review. 500 watts is a lot closer to what might be considered appropriate for low-consumption equipment than 1200, but the delta chart isn't just annoying, it's uninformative and utterly stupid. If you're going to be bothered with measuring idle and load wattage, why not just post the bloody numbers? I'm sure we, the readers, can handle a little bit of subtraction on our own if we want delta values. So yes, like in other recent articles, I completely support the posting of actual wattage values and +1 the carpet bombing of profanity in the post above as, at this point, earned and deserved.
ant6n - Friday, December 26, 2014 - link
If it had 4 SATAs it could make a good file server.