Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Christopher Harper

Game played on a 3D dental scanner with an old Intel CPU and AMD GPU — up to 700 FPS on Counter-Strike: Source

A 3D dental scanner being used to play Subnautica with keyboard and trackball.

Ever wonder what those PCs used as 3D dental scanners at your local dental clinic are really capable of? Three days ago, Redditor u/AfternoonPutrid8558 on the r/PCMasterRace subreddit shared a story and a set of photographs in which he tested this exact question out, thanks to being granted brief after-hours access to his father's dental clinic. Limited time and free storage were the biggest limiting factors at play here, with a 100 megabits per second download speed, making some larger game installs unfeasible within the time window.

In any case, u/AfternoonPutrid8558 did seem to have plenty of time to capture the unique characteristics of this 3D dental scanner.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.