does anand benchmark q3 with sound on or off?

[Taylorm]

im particulay curious to this benchmark when he was comparing ti500 vs radeon 8500 http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1544&p=10

i can come within 10fps of his benchmark with almost same hardware with the sound off but with sound on i am not even close

he didnt mention in that article whether sound was on or off. anyone know by any chance. thanks!!

 

[So]

How do you turn sound of in Q3?

anyway, bump because I'd like to know too.

 

[Taylorm]

type in console before benchmarking:

s_initsound 0
snd_restart



neways after a more carefull examination of anands test system ive noticed he didnt even have a soundcard in his machine !
so i guess that explains it

 

[BFG10K]

Sound off. Sharky or Firingsquad use sound on which gives a more realisic gaming benchmark.

 

[Demonicon]

Sound on does not give a realistic BENCHMARK though, these benchmarks are not even realistic "GAMING" bench's even with the sound off. These benchmarks stress your VIDEO components to see how they run under extreme stress from a game.

We're not trying to see what soundcard is best, are we?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< Sound on does not give a realistic BENCHMARK though, these benchmarks are not even realistic "GAMING" bench's even with the sound off. These benchmarks stress your VIDEO components to see how they run under extreme stress from a game.

We're not trying to see what soundcard is best, are we? >>

yup, same reason you see 640x480 resolution benchmarks when CPU benches are done. who plays in 640x480? you get up too high and the memory bandwidth on the vidcard becomes the limit, not the CPU, so the res is dropped and it's completely CPU limited.

 

[oldfart]

I dont think there is even a soundcard in the systems that are tested.

 

[TallBill]

yeah.. the idea (i'd think) would be to limit the test to one component however possible

 

[So]

Thanks Taylorn