Futuremark launches site for gamers

THE PUBLISHER OF THE WELL known 3DMark, PCMark, SPMark and other synthetic benchmarks announced that it is taking a step up from its former role and will create a game site that offers several services.

Most notable is a substitute for certain unprecise benchmark code that comes with Windows Vista. The boys at Redmond certainly didn't work too hard on that - my Athlon 64 X2 5200+, Kentsfield 2.66 GHz and dual dual-core Opterons have the same performance index.

YouGamers.Com is a site oriented towards gamers and readers who would like to see non-biased reviews of games and Futuremark hired completely new staff for this project. At the same time you will be connected with on-line shops and have a performance tool which will check the capabilities of your computer against system requirements by game, and you can see how the game will run on your Windows-PCs.

The only problem we have is the fact that performance tool uses exclusively IE6 and IE7.

Site as it supposed to look

The guys from Futuremark told us about the challenges they had in the making of this site, including the fact that the price difference for games in stores is sometimes as much as $20. µ

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