Recent content by nico9

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    Battlefield 4 CPU performance: Win 7 vs Win 8.1, up to 50% more fps

    It will be interesting to revisit some of these topics after the game has been released for a bit and patched well.
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    7970 overclock auto shutdown

    I've an HD 7970 that will do 1260|1661 fine and my PSU is just a Corsair AX650.
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    BF4 CPU usage

    FX-6300? In some titles I did not like the min FPS it would put up at 3.9GHz. It was too low for my tastes. At just over 4.3GHz it becomes acceptable. At 4.66GHz I actually like it and don't have any regrets owning the chip. If I had been stuck around 4.3GHz it's likely I would have abandoned...
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    Unigine Valley 1.0 Benchmark Thread ** Post your scores**

    This time I read the OP. I didn't realize you restricted use of the CCC. I was using performance driver settings on the previous run straight from the CCC and I warmed the bench by cycling through all stages with enter before I benched. Do you allow people to set +20% under power control in...
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    Unigine Valley 1.0 Benchmark Thread ** Post your scores**

    There's mine for a single HD 7970 using the 13.10 Beta driver. 1260|1661 = 54.5 FPS Direct link- http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/369/w4nm.jpg
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    Microstutter on single GPU?

    Some games definitely occasionally hitch or stutter more than others. Background services polling a computer could contribute to that in some cases. I smoothed out Skyrim's outdoor areas by capping my FPS with MSI's Afterburner.
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    Benchmark your computer with Handbrake

    FX 6300 @ 4.66GHz Win 7 HP x64 HandBrake svn5778 (Nightly Build) - 64bit Version [11:57:34] starting job x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX XOP FMA4 FMA3 SSEMisalign LZCNT BMI1 [11:58:36] work: average encoding speed for job is 227.247696 fps