Serious Sam HD

Alongside all new HD graphics, Serious Sam still has a casual blaster appeal, that's why we've included it here. It's easy to dive in and dive out without much commitment, and the engine scales back the detail levels pretty well. There's actually one detail level below what we've used, however it looks incredibly poor so we would strongly avoid it.

We set Serious Sam HD to its 'Low' settings on the graphics side, while leaving the CPU set to 'High', with V-Sync disabled and the resolution was set to 1,280 x 800. We manually ran the first part of the Egypt campaign for 90 seconds, three times over with FRAPS 3.03 and took an average result.



Both the 880G and 785G perform exactly the same in this game. Both still better than the GMA HD of the i3-530, but the faster Intel GMA-HD of the i5-661 proved faster than either AMD setup by 11fps. The GeForce IGP was even better, but both this and the i5-661 system could run the game smoothly at the settings we used.