Sapphire EDGE VS8 Barebones Model Review (8GB/SSD)

Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation’s award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to the Steam client for Mac OS X. It builds upon the cooperatively-focused gameplay of the original and uses Valve’s proprietary Source engine, the same game engine used in Left 4 Dead. The game made its world premiere at E3 2009 with a trailer during the Microsoft press event.

We selected 720p and configured the engine to run with a mixture of low, medium and high settings.

The Sapphire Edge VS8 Mini PC is able to power the Source engine at 720p, maintaining smooth frame rates throughout. The game loads in a fraction of the time when compared against the previous EDGE VS8 we tested in December. All thanks to the Solid State Drive in this system.

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