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| Thread ID: 126925 | 2012-09-25 02:31:00 | What would be the gaming bottleneck in this system? | Drenwick (13216) | Press F1 |
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| 1303320 | 2012-09-27 05:26:00 | If I can figure out how to show the FPS, I'll do some tests tonight with accurate FPS and see :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1303321 | 2012-09-27 05:28:00 | grab the fraps trial. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1303322 | 2012-09-27 06:03:00 | Solid frame rates with a 3ghz dual core AMD and a 6870?....did you see the graph on the first page?....perhaps not. Here is another with i7-3960X @ 3.33 which is probably about 3 times faster than your CPU....and yet only 51 FPS... 4303 In other words, if the OP had a better CPU, i would probably get by with his 550t1 and medium setting.....but then again, i dont know what you call solid frame rates... Thanks for that , thinking about buying that game and I'm 2nd from the top on the graph :) As for the argument about frame rates, bottle necks etc it's pretty much been said to death. The OP's CPU is pretty good and will handle most games with reasonable framerates, the 550Ti is an entry level card and will not. It is undoubtably the bottleneck in this system. However the CPU will limit the max frame rate if the OP buys a sufficiently fast card. As long as that limit isn't below playable levels it doesn't matter. It's not important what the bottleneck is as long as every component is capable of a steady 60fps Ideally (30fps as a minimum well staying playable). For most games the AMD CPU will handle that. Adding a 660Ti may well be overkill for a lot of games with the CPU becoming the limiting factor, but better to have too much GPU power than too little. On top of that the 6 core has a lot of untapped power that future games could take advantage off, most current games still only use 2 cores but with 4 cores becoming commonplace game developers could choose to change that. I am intel i5 for gaming all the way personally (I like to stay ahead of what's needed :)), but I have friends still using dual and quad core AMDs and in one case a 2.66 core 2 Duo and so far they have been able to play everything. The one excepton was RAGE on a Athlon X2 5200+, unplayable. Upgrading to a PhenomII X3 fixed it and it's now completely smooth. There is still life in AMD systems for a while yet, at least until the next wave of game development |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1303323 | 2012-09-27 09:05:00 | Doesn't go under 40 FPS, peaks just over 100. Hovers around 65. min.us Got screenshots but it didn't show the FPS :p So remembering roughly: 1) 110 2) 110 3) 80-ish 4) 80-ish 6) 65 6) 42 (As I fired an incendiary weapon) EDIT: Subsequent ones were fine, that was the *first* shot that dipped it that low EDIT MOAR: Can I make it include how many FPS it's doing at the time of the screenshot? EDIT: Wait my bad, I was looking in the wrong place, I'll take some more after this DotA2 game :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1303324 | 2012-09-27 10:14:00 | I just ran a test, running the game on Max settings at 1080p. 48 Min 100 Max 74 Average Specs: 965 @ 3.4ghz 7850 2gb 4gb DDR3 |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1303325 | 2012-09-27 20:48:00 | Just had a quick play of BL2 on both my PCs.. intersting result imo. Both at 1920x1080 with most stuff maxed. On the Phenom 955 w/GTX460, under various conditions the GPU & CPU both cap out (not necessarily at the same time, and CPU about twice as often as the GPU), which leads me to believe they're a fairly balanced pairing, and upgrading either would result in an increase in average FPS (by removing some of the 'dead'-zones' as it were). Average FPS was ~51, but min was 17. Alternately, i5-3570 w/GTX660, the GPU never got to 100% load, whereas the CPU did on occasion, average FPS was ~64, with a minimum of 33. Both combinations are definitely playable, but you can tell the i5/660 is smoother with no low-frame (sub-30 fps) encounters. Skyrim, I note, never pushes either CPU seriously, and the GPU is the limiting factor on both machines. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1303326 | 2012-09-27 21:41:00 | minus.com You can see me fire an incendiary weapon, as well as sprinting a lot (Not still-shots, they're fast-action with lots moving). My CPU peaked at 80% at one stage... Definitely don't believe it's the bottleneck :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1303327 | 2012-09-28 05:12:00 | Shameless twitch.tv plug? :p | icow (15313) | ||
| 1303328 | 2012-09-28 07:34:00 | Oh nah that's my mate, its his steam name :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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