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With its factory tuning and data center DNA, an Intel 730 series SSD is an

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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts. Hey there,

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guys. Welcome to my Thief benchmarking overview video. We're going to be

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testing things today on the standard test bench of 4960X clocked at 4.0 0

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GHz, about 16 gigs of RAM clocked at 1866 MHz, and a variance of GPUs whose

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overclocking settings you can find in the GPU overclocking dock linked below

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this video. So, I broke up the graphics cards into three tiers. There's the

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extreme tier with $500 plus graphics cards, which is running on very high

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preset with one thing changed so that it goes to custom, which is anotropic

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filtering at 16x running at 1600p.

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That's the crazy tier. Then one step down, we've got around 300 to $400 tier

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where we're running just on the very high preset at uh 16x inotropic

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filtering, but at 1080p, not 1600p like

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the tier above. And then one step down, which is where we're running at 1080p

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again, but just on the high preset and no custom values at all. And that's at

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about the $150 $170 range. Two things,

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guys. These numbers are very subject to change. NVIDIA and AMD will assuredly be

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releasing drivers in the future as they always do and they will probably be

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including optimizations for Thief. So, both of these numbers for either teams

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could go up in varying amounts. We're not entirely sure, but for now, you can

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just use it as kind of a educated guess on how well this card will perform in

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the future if you do buy one or if you have one already. Also another thing is

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these numbers were pulled from neweag.com which is an American website

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and especially AMD cards pricing on this website is very skewed because in the

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states especially pricing for AMD cards has gone a little bit nuts because of

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coin mining. So if you're someone who's not in the states looking at this video,

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maybe a card falls into another bracket. So I would highly suggest checking out

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and comparing the dollar value of these cards on your own, especially if you are

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outside of the States.

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All right, guys. So, here's the benchmarking run so you guys can either

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replicate it on your own or just see generally what I'm doing. We start just

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outside of the main hideout in Thief. And then, well, this isn't a crazy

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action game or is it supposed to be played as a crazy action game. So,

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unlike a lot of my benchmarks, I'm not going to run around killing as many people as I can within the 2 minutes.

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I'm actually just going to kind of go around and do some things that you might

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do in Thief for 2 minutes. And you'll notice that not a fair amount of it is

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actually just looking in different places or like crouching at certain

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times and crouching through certain areas. That's mainly for timing so that

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I can actually easily replicate this run. As you can see here, I've actually

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already looted this house on a previous playth through, but I knew exactly where

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the house was and I knew I could navigate through it quite easily, so I

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went back there for this play through. Just stay alert

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once I get through this window here. Uh, I had to save a few times to find a

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proper save for this as there's two guards in this courtyard. I can't waste

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a ton of time trying to sneak around the guards because that's not going to be

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the easiest thing to replicate. So, I try to find a save file where I could actually do this properly. So, if you're

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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

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the right spot. But, it's not too bad.

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rock teeth.

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One thing I use is the sweep mechanic, as you saw right there, um, which is

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built into the game to actually traverse without being seen too easily.

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I try to get light late areas, dark areas, uh, sweeping mechanics,

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crouching, running, walking, all that kind of stuff in this benchmark to try

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and show all the different things that you'll probably be doing in Thief quite

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actively. We're nearing the end now after we climb down this ladder.

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And as we run up the stairs, we're coming right to the end. We're going to

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crouch here and then shift through the light. And the benchmark should end

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right about here.

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Hungry. All right, guys. Thanks for watching my Thief video. If you want to

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