As some of you might know, I am in the middle of a new PC build, which is going to kick some major ass. However, my current PC is basically a bunch of failing parts, and woefully short on pretty much everything (see: a single 2GB stick of RAM).

So I decided to do some benchmarks on the hardcore PC games I have installed right now. Stuff like Crysis 2 with all of the DX11 bells and wistles, ArmA 2 with it's HUGE maps, and Metro 2033 with all of it pertiness. And man, was it bad. I couldn't actually Benchmark Crysis 2, sadly, but that actually wasn't a total shit show. Well, it was, because it was pretty much unplayable and stuttered like fuck, and usually hard locked my computer on loads (my HDD is dying), but the framerate wasn't that bad when the game wasn't freezing up for 30 seconds.

Metro 2033 on the other hand benchmarked at an average framerate of 6 per second, with a max of 22, and a min of 1.3

ArmA gives very little data, but the average framerate was about 8, and the benchmark for AO doesn't seem super intense so I doubt that is really all that accurate. I also hopped into the little firing range map and man, it was impossible to play, so much latency and such a low framerate.