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Welcome to our Starcraft 2 benchmarking

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instructional guide so this will allow you to Benchmark Starcraft 2 just like

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us so it should be noted first of all that we use the ultra and extreme

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presets we Benchmark at 1080p with no anti-aliasing and Slick is going to walk

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you through there's links in the description for anything any additional instructions you might need but lick is

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going to walk you guys through from the entry Screen through to the several

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minute Benchmark that we run in Starcraft 2 now there's a reason that we run it the way we do with a butt ton of

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units and all these particle effects and like sort of this intense battle and

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that because Starcraft 2 for the most part runs on pretty much anything so in

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order to actually give you guys some idea in the most intense possible

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scenario in the middle of a battle when your graphics card or your CPU might

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actually tank and lower your frame rate giving you not that smooth performance

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you need in order to you know click on things accurately and in order to react

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to things in time uh we wanted to show you the worst case scenario so guys the

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idea is you can follow along with this Benchmark your own system and you can

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easily compare it to how our reference systems perform in this game um so you

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can decide if you need to upgrade or not just going to do a quick recap of our

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settings so we're running full screen 1080p running the ultra preset and the

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extreme preset with no anti-a lasing how you find the game is just

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jump into arcade real quick go to micro

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3 jump in here I'd highly recommend bookmarking it bookmark button it's just

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right up here just play game pretty straightforward and start

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game so we're going to start off right away by spawning 50 freaking zealots

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just because that sounds

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awesome all the clicking there we go

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then jump into Teran spawn 30

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medac because no one should die on this

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day jump back to protos and click it again as you can see on the tool tip

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press again to show upgrades we're going to give the zealots armor armor three

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and we're going to give the zealots Shields three so that they're all tanky

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as possible possible uh mirror the whole setup over jump onto the other side and

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give them upgrades as

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well Shields three and armor three yet again save this preset as whatever you

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want just because it's a lot easier this way I can spell um lot easier this way

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if you ever have to run the Benchmark again that way say you came in with a

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clean slate you cleared the board you could just load and it would bring

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everything back so instead of precisely spawning a monstrously ridiculous amount

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of units again it's just all there right away um your upgrades are saved

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everything it's pretty awesome so now you just want to start which doesn't

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actually start the match it'll properly set your screen right in the position it

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should be in and it puts you into kind of the battle UI so you can see over

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here just pause reset attack energy all that kind of stuff all you want to do

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for the pregame is throw energy on just gives all your medacs full energy so

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that while they're healing everybody up they won't run out

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and then you just start your benchmark right when you click

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attack yes the unit composition is totally unrealistic and this would

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probably never happen um but that's not

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exactly the point it's just there's a lot of units on screen there's a whole

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bunch of particle effects from the different uh medacs and all that kind of

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stuff so it's just lots of stuff on the screen which is pretty hard on the

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computer we find that a lot of Starcraft benchmarks are too easy too much Base

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building stuff like that which is isn't actually very hard on the computer so we thought we'd throw something a little

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bit harder now this isn't as hard as it gets we're not throwing mother ships

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cooking everything and all that other kind of stuff at it but this is still a

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pretty difficult

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Benchmark I hope you found this educational click the link in the

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description to visit our Forum so you can post your own results and see how it

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compares to anything that we've pretty much ever tested in the past and as

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always guys thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to L this techtips from unboxing reviews and other

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