4850@stock vs 4850@790/1028 in COD4, Lost Planet DX9 and FarCry at 1600x1200

[dug777]

Rig is a stock Q6600/4GB RAM/ASUS P5Q PRO/Asus 4850 with the Glaciator HSF, 8.10 Cats.

COD4 and FarCry were both benched using FRAPS by finding a repeatable bit I could walk without getting shot, but COD4 was very challenging, the bechmark is so short because the only way I could get it repeatable was to find the longest spot I could walk in a straight line (right at the start of the demo after the fighting has moved on). No cherrypicking, just ascertained it was repeatable then did a run at each clock setting, back to back.

Anyway, the preliminary results

All AA is set to application settings (edge-detect) and adaptive-aa (quality) in CCC.

COD4 (Everything maxed in the demo, 4xAA):

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/COD4.jpg

FarCry (Everything maxed in the full retail version patched with the 64-bit extended content patches, AA and AF maxed in the game control panel):

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/FarCry.jpg

Lost Planet DX9 (benchmark, everything maxed in the game control panel):

With Adaptive AA/edge-detect set in CCC:

8XAA (set in game):

OC'd (F)=Snow(S):27 Cave(C):30
Stock (S)=S:25 C:28

2XAA (set in game):

F=S:31 C:43
S=S:29 C:40

0XAA (set in game):

F=S:49 C:73
S=S:45 C:72

With Adaptive AA set to off in CCC, and AA set to box:

4xAA (set in game)

F=S:41 C:64
S=S:38 C:60

Bottom line: the 4850 gets a nice (and noticeable in gameplay) boost from the OC, but it's appears quite mem-bandwidth limited at 790 core

Suggestions for improvements or other options?

Will try to oc my Q6600 to at least 3Ghz to see how that changes it, if at all...

 

[aldamon]

My suggestion would be to overclock that Q6600 and try again.

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: aldamon
My suggestion would be to overclock that Q6600 and try again.

This

 

[Blacklash]

With a 4850 I'd run 4xAA in most titles. That would be application controlled with box selected and 4xAA set in the game CP. If you're forcing it from the CCC 4x set there and box. In older less demanding titles I might go 8xAA. In older less demanding titles you could probably run 12xCFAA depending on your resolution. Set 4xAA in the game then select edge detect/application controlled in the CCC to use that. In demanding titles I would not run adaptive AA.

Below is good article from HardOCP-

http://www.hardocp.com/article...UzMiwsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0

Your Q6600 should do 3.0GHz on the stock cooler with stock voltage. Beyond that you'll start to need to use more vcore and a better cooler.

 

[vj8usa]

Looks good so far, but a legend for the graphs would be nice. It's easy enough to tell that red is OCed and blue is stock in the cod4 graph, but I can't figure out why there's 2 sets of lines in FC.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: vj8usa
Looks good so far, but a legend for the graphs would be nice. It's easy enough to tell that red is OCed and blue is stock in the cod4 graph, but I can't figure out why there's 2 sets of lines in FC.

My apologies, I did two runs at either clock setting.

Thanks for the comments, duly noted

 

[Modular]

I just think it would be cool to see how much a benefit those GPU overclocks would be on an overclocked processor. I'm sure you'll be nicely surprised!

 

[Tempered81]

vmem mod! heheh

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Modular
I just think it would be cool to see how much a benefit those GPU overclocks would be on an overclocked processor. I'm sure you'll be nicely surprised!

I think you're probably right, will give it a go this weekend when I have some time to sit down and do it properly

Did I mention this card was insane value? That I could get power like this for $211 AUD (currently $135 USD) blows my mind :thumbsup: