Mesh Elite Game Changer 980 Gaming PC Review

Tomb Raider

We used a 1920 x 1080 resolution and the Tomb Raider built-in benchmark set to ‘Ultimate' quality.

The GTX 980 gives the Game Changer a distinct advantage over our Z97 reference system, but the benefit compared to the GTX 970-sporting Chillblast Fusion Barbarian isn't so huge. Nevertheless, Tomb Raider will be eminently playable at the maximum quality, boding well for many other titles.

Grand Theft Auto V

We used a 1920 x 1200 resolution and the GTA V built-in benchmark set to maximum quality settings to offer an intense challenge for the gaming hardware while also making playable frame rates a possibility. We used FRAPS to record the frame rates of the last portion of the benchmark, where a jet flies across the city followed by a truck ploughing into a petrol tanker.

We don't have any systems to compare this to, but it's clear that this very grueling game is eminently playable at the maximum settings in HD. The handy GTA V memory allocation bar shows there's plenty of headroom left from the 4GB available on the GTX 980 graphics, whereas a 3GB card would be struggling at these settings.