Going from a GeForce2 Pro to a Radeon 8500 lowered my ping?

[JackBurton]

OK guys, you're going to think I'm smoking crack or something, but I swear I'm not! I had my system fully tweaked with an MSI GeForce2 Pro overclocked to 240/450, but I needed more power in RTCW. Well I just installed my Radeon 8500 and the game runs even better but what surprised me the most is that my pings went from 43 to around 33-36!! What the hell is that about?! I didn't do anything different to my system, and I didn't even touch my NIC (as far as updating drivers). This is just weird, but "good" weird.

P.S. I did a fresh install with the Radeon 8500 as I did with my GeForce 2 Pro.

 

[AA0]

just luck, probably hit a time with low congestion on the net, either that or you tweaked your connection settings really poorly one time.

 

[chizow]

Yah probably just luck, but maybe the Radeon 8500 doesn't hog the FSB as much? I think one of Sandra's output messages says that the device "may hog the PCI bus" or something like that. Just a guess, and probably not a good one

Chiz

 

[JackBurton]

<< just luck, probably hit a time with low congestion on the net, either that or you tweaked your connection settings really poorly one time. >>


I've been playing RTCW since the first demo came out and have never had anything lower than a 43 ping. Now I get 33-36 ping all the time. I also never tweaked my connection. Just weird.

 

[sash1]

weird indeed, but your lower ping is in no way related to a new video card. I get the same ping on my old Pentium II 400 w/ VooDoo 2 as I do with my 1GHz w/ Kyro II, in CS.

My frame-rate however, now tahts a different story.

So don't think getting the GF5 with 128MB of DDR will give you a ping of 10.

It would be nice if that did happen. It would aslo be nice if that card was out.

~Aunix