For the lulz... i5-4670k + HD4600 gaming performance

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tehflamex

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I think i found it, there was a load optimised gpu oc setting and i enabled it and set to 1600mhz and with 1600mhz it defaults to 1.25v, should i put as adaptive ?
 

tehflamex

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Okay so balla is 51c safe?? I have it set too 1500mhz and 1.010v right now i have the rendering thing going and the gpu is at 100% load ( do you think i can still lower the voltage or should i raise it? )
 

BallaTheFeared

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Well i cant do this untill i get a new cooler, under full load it was hitting 75c,

You need a dedicated video card, forget the igpu :thumbsup:


Okay so balla is 51c safe?? I have it set too 1500mhz and 1.010v right now i have the rendering thing going and the gpu is at 100% load ( do you think i can still lower the voltage or should i raise it? )


Yes, even 75c was fine.

Test your Assassin's Creed game to see if you're getting an increase in performance. That said you can if you want, overclocking is all about tweaking and fine tuning, have fun!

Haswell will throttle if it gets too hot.
 

tehflamex

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I will get a gtx 770 when i get the money but im doing this igpu overclock thing so i can play games until i get that money
 

BallaTheFeared

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AC IV is a stretch, when I tested it with my igpu it was fairly painful because it scales so poorly downward.

Most other games you'll do fine though.
 

tehflamex

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I saw that the voltage was way to high it was at 1.25v for 1600mhz ( lol ) so i put it too 1700mhz and 1.25v :) lets see what happens in ac4
 

BallaTheFeared

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It was the last game I tested. Back on page 2, before you blew this thread up :p

Though I was running 4.8Ghz on the cpu with 2400MHz ram and 1750 on the iGPU.

AC4:BF - 1440x900 FXAA, Medium Environment and Texture quality, everything else lowest/off.

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
5248, 204938, 17, 39, 25.608


Batman: AO - 1920x1080 FXAA High, Normal, Normal, everything else off.

batman1080p_zps61aae4dc.png~original

Look at how much harder it was to run than Batman: AO :hmm:
 

tehflamex

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Yeah your right, i guess ill pc it just a little but it seems to not dip below like 25 now and runs from 25-3x? So thanks for balla i truely appreciate you helping on this journey :) ill try deadspace 3 and yea thanks :)
 

BallaTheFeared

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No problem, glad I could help!

Pity AC4 is so hard to run, I enjoy/ed that game ;)

You can load up Battlefield 4 and get better results at higher settings :\
 

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i'd rather have the hd 4600 than my current temp card (9400 GT). It runs fallout 1 and pixeljunk monsters fine, everything else is a mess. At least on the hd4000 you could play through half life 2 and rome total war.

If intel keeps up the performance gains on the gpu side everyone will be able to play modern games on their pc soon.
 

ali1988

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So to get this straight, HD4600 can handle CS source? What sort of performance would you guesstimate or expect. like 60fps stock and 100+fps when OCd?
 

yottabit

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So to get this straight, HD4600 can handle CS source? What sort of performance would you guesstimate or expect. like 60fps stock and 100+fps when OCd?

Id guess 300 fps plus stock. I can test it out later. Unless you mean CS:GO which is a little more demanding. CSS is ancient...

I played WoW for about a week at 1080p medium settings on my HD4600 before I realized I had the HDMI plugged into the motherboard instead of my 7770... only noticed because I was getting a little slowdown in raids.

EDIT: So tested it, CS:S with my i5 4570 and Radeon HD 7770, about ~500-700 FPS with no AA or Anisotropic filtering at 1080p. Turning on 8x MSAA and 16x Aniso brings it to about ~300-500 FPS. This is just running around on a 32 player server.

Running off the (stock) HD 4600 at 1080p with no AA or aniso it gets around 125 fps average, with drops down to maybe 60-80 in worst case and spikes up to 200. However turning on AA or Aniso brings it down really bad. With just 2x MSAA and 2x Aniso it dropped to about ~40 average.

Edit again: Even CS:Go is pretty playable on the HD 4600 at 1080p. With Medium settings and low shaders its around 40-60 FPS. Low settings and low shaders its around 60-80 fps.
 
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Magic Carpet

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Just tried to run Borderlands 2 on HD 4600. It was not a pleasant experience, lol (it was meant to replace GT 640, now it looks like I have to keep it).
 

SPBHM

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i'd rather have the hd 4600 than my current temp card (9400 GT). It runs fallout 1 and pixeljunk monsters fine, everything else is a mess. At least on the hd4000 you could play through half life 2 and rome total war.

If intel keeps up the performance gains on the gpu side everyone will be able to play modern games on their pc soon.

9400GT is really old school, not much more than a die shrunk 8500GT I think, which was a bad card in 2007 :biggrin:

even HD 3000 is better.


I've played some borderlands 2 with an HD 5570 and it was not so bad, but it was at 1280x1024 medium, I would expect the HD 4600 to be be around the same or even faster with OC.
 

Maximilian

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Long story short im getting into dogecoin im left with a HD4600 to game on. This is my main GPU now :$ Its come to this lol...

Handles league of legends rather well, havent tried anything else yet, not looking forward to it tbh.
 

rtsurfer

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I am very disappointed with HD4600 gaming performance.

AMD's iGpu gaming performance is atleast decent.

I have OCed my HD4600 to 1700 Mhz and I am getting a spectacular 19 Fps in Nfs: Rivals @ 1080P with everthing that I could change, set to low.
 
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nwo

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I am very disappointed with HD4600 gaming performance.

AMD's iGpu gaming performance is atleast decent.

I have OCed my HD4600 to 1700 Mhz and I am getting a spectacular 19 Fps in Nfs: Rivals @ 1080P with everthing that I could change, set to low.

Prior to the 7850k release, AMD's iGPUs were a good 2-3 times faster than Intel's HD 4600. The only aspect in which AMD CPUs are ahead of Intel is iGPUs.
 

Magic Carpet

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I've played some borderlands 2 with an HD 5570 and it was not so bad, but it was at 1280x1024 medium, I would expect the HD 4600 to be be around the same or even faster with OC.
With low to medium settings at sub 1000p resolutions maybe its a decent iGPU. However, even my GT 640 gives me playable framerates at 1050p with everything set to high. Whether its latest drivers or bad software optimization, I don't know, but it's very easy to spot 10-20 fps versus 20-40 fps. BL2 happens to be my favorite game and HD 4600 is, really bad at it.

Long story short im getting into dogecoin im left with a HD4600 to game on. This is my main GPU now :$ Its come to this lol...

Handles league of legends rather well, havent tried anything else yet, not looking forward to it tbh.
If it can play your games well, then it's great. At least it doesn't take up extra space in your case :)
 
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