Settle a bottlenecking argument

Oh so you took the video card that's in your signature on the left, and clocked it down to 450/1320 speeds and ran the 3DMark06 and got the 2000/2000/1900 scores?


Also you're camparing your 7900GT which is 24pp 8vertext to his 7800GT which is 20pp 7vertex, where is this comparison going? I'd say he's doing pretty good considering he's fighting you with lower clock speeds and 4 less pipes, unless I'm missing something here

 

I apologize for the delay, but I just lost power over here (thunder storm) and had to re install windows

I'm re installing FEAR now......

 

haha.... ima start ocing when i get my water cooler >< on my cpu >< ererrerererr......... must get it to 2.8

 

2.8 is a walk in the park for me I can actually run this thing up to 3066Mhz, but at that speed it won't even be close. But it's not like @ 2.8Ghz it's going to be close anyway......FEAR just finished reinstalling so, I'll be right back......

 

OK, here you go....

1280x1024 with the settings you requested..

And yes, that is with only 1 card @ 500/1500 with my Opty @ 2.8Ghz......

I'll run SLI now so you can get a comparison idea....


And with SLI @ 500/1500

 

Show screenies of an underclocked cpu and an overclocked cpu with those same single and sli settings...

Although I must say that part of the game is not cpu intensive like say...in the middle of a firefight with multiple enemies bearing down on you.

 

u should post a screenie. without vsynk so we can get a better comparison.

 

I agree with his choice of benchmarking, as it is a very accurate way of insuring that we are doing the exact same thing at the same time. Wether or not it's all that intensive, it will still give you a very accurate comparision at the same point at the same time, with the same amount of action going on.

Oh, and WR3CK, unless his monitors refresh rate it 30Hz (no monitor has a refresh rate of 30Hz) it's not limiting his performance there at all.


lol...I just noticed he is running his @ 1280x960 (the games highest default setting) I actually edited the FEAR cfg file so I could run it at full 1280x1024. I bet if I left it alone my fps would even be more.....

 

brian, do you have a friend with 7800GT? Just pop it in, run the bench again, and see what kind of improvements if any, you will get. that will answer your debate with roko. (and spectacle)

 

I'm not doubting that he'll get an improvement. But he will be (and already is) severely CPU handicapped. As I just demonstrated by comparing an AMD X2 CPU with a Pentium Dual Core. Even though his CPU is @ 4Ghz he cannot keep up with me at only 2.8Ghz. In fact, it wasn't even close.

Will they see a benefit of going SLI? Sure, but it will be crippled by their CPUs

 

I figured this thread needs a laughing stock so here @ stock card clocks 400/982



And having the bejesus overclocked out of my card at 452/1201

 

u wanna help me overclock? cuz i suck at it >< i have amd 4200 dual core running at 2.4 ghz rite now....... i have ocz performance.... i have a lot of power so no worries and ima get the zalman 9500 soon for my cpu ^^.... help me oc >< tell me the step by step ><

 

It's not just as simple as that, there are many factors you must consider, such as your CPUs stepping, ram, mobo, cooling, voltage, and such. First you need to know what stepping your CPU is and compare it to others of the same model. (you can only find this info on the top of the CPU itself by taking of the HSF and looking at the the top of the CPU itself)

 

lol nice... is that with vSync on...?

and my eVGA 7900GT Stock clocks are 500Core/1500Mem

 

If you're asking me r0k0 no I don't think it has vsync as I only used in game max settings I didn't touch my control panel so I'm pretty sure the vsync is off.

And when I was talking about stock settings for your card I was talking about acdual stock settings for a 7900GT, the one you got is superclocked by eVGA so to you it's stock, to the video card world it's overclocked, cuz stock cloccks on a 7900GT from Nvidia is 450/1320.

I'm actually planning on buying a video card like yours

 

You've got to be kidding, that POS P4 is totally slowing down your 7800 card much less SLI or a 7900GT!!!!

I have a X2 3800 @ 2.8GHz and I know its bottlenecking my 7900GT vmod 650/1700.

Seriously, in FEAR I tested it. I left the CPU at stock 2.0GHz and found I was getting 35-45FPS outside in FEAR Combat. Then I overclocked to 2.8GHz and outside framerates jumped 10,15+ frames per second which means 60+ outside. It makes a huge difference. And even the conroes are being choked up by HIGH end SLI and Crossfire setups.

And anything other than the Conroe is lame! If you're going for SLI you're going to need not only a new mobo but a CPU.

 

Jpenn I hate to tell you but an X2 @ 2.8ghz is not slowing down your 7900GT @(650/1700) Anything in the 2.5-2.7ghz range is going to be plenty for our cards.

 

To the OP:
I think that you should sell your current CPU and motherboard (should go for around $200-250), then take the money you've saved for that 7800GT ($200 I assume), and buy a Core 2 Duo E6400 and an Asus P5 motherboard.

Overclocked with that setup, you should get framerates similar to Spectacle's setup.

And whoever said the Source stress test is not CPU intensive has obviously not paid attention to the Half Life 2 portions of graphics card reviews here at Guru3D.

 

wgere can i find the fear bench?