Gaming performance
The MESH Elite E6600 Express ships with a 19in 1280x1024 Sony TFT and the overall package is priced at an attractive £1,099 inc. VAT. We consider this to be a midrange monitor and midrange price, so our Far Cry and Quake 4 tests were run at 1280x1024 (the monitor's native resolution) with 4xAA and 8xAF. Only the HEXUS system was compared, as the MESH X1950 Fire utilises CrossFired Radeon X1950 XTX cards, making it a very high-end GPU solution.
MESH has sensibly and generously included a decent PCIe graphics card in the form of a Leadtek GeForce 7950 GT, thus making both Far Cry and Quake 4 play super smooth at 1280x1024.
To gain some comparison data and push the graphics card to the limit, we ran our GPU-bashing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory benchmark at 1920x1200 4xAA and 8xAF, to see how the system would handle the extra resolution load should you upgrade your monitor to, say, a 24in model.
The MESH X1950 Fire's CrossFired Radeon cards are hugely impressive here, but the Elite E6600's GeForce 7900 GT manages to produce playable framerates in this stealthy game. The minimum framerate during the test was a respectable (and playable) 27FPS. You could, obviously, add another card for increased framerates via SLI, and, with Splinter Cell: CT being the poster child for multi-GPU adoption, we reckon the average framerates would head north of 75FPS.
