Originally posted by: apoppin
you can't do the stock test at the stock settings?
- Vantage is not important except for showing changes in the same system .. play games!
.. at any rate, i think my benches showed you lost nothing practical in frame rates with a 4870-1GB on a 1.0 PCIe MB compared to 2.0; GTX280 showed a little difference.
PCIe 3.0 is out and should be available in new MBs this Summer
Originally posted by: apoppin
you can't do the stock test at the stock settings?
- Vantage is not important except for showing changes in the same system .. play games!
.. at any rate, i think my benches showed you lost nothing practical in frame rates with a 4870-1GB on a 1.0 PCIe MB compared to 2.0; GTX280 showed a little difference.
PCIe 3.0 is out and should be available in new MBs this Summer
Originally posted by: Biomorphic
Originally posted by: apoppin
you can't do the stock test at the stock settings?
- Vantage is not important except for showing changes in the same system .. play games!
.. at any rate, i think my benches showed you lost nothing practical in frame rates with a 4870-1GB on a 1.0 PCIe MB compared to 2.0; GTX280 showed a little difference.
PCIe 3.0 is out and should be available in new MBs this Summer
I can't do the stock test at a stock run because the native resolution of my monitor is 1360 x 768 pixels. So, I can only do the GPU tests with any presets I want but only at 1360 x 768 pixels.
Anyway, I'm benchmarking some games these days and I'll post it on my website as soon as I finish. However, most of the games I play are racing ones and most of them retain a 60 FPS gameplay, which is not suitable for benchmarking. Race Driver: GRID seems okay but that's the only game I have which allows me to disable vertical sync.
Do you have any suggestion other than Crysis, Call of Duty, World in Conflict, Far Cry, etc?
Originally posted by: Biomorphic
Originally posted by: apoppin
you can't do the stock test at the stock settings?
- Vantage is not important except for showing changes in the same system .. play games!
.. at any rate, i think my benches showed you lost nothing practical in frame rates with a 4870-1GB on a 1.0 PCIe MB compared to 2.0; GTX280 showed a little difference.
PCIe 3.0 is out and should be available in new MBs this Summer
I can't do the stock test at a stock run because the native resolution of my monitor is 1360 x 768 pixels. So, I can only do the GPU tests with any presets I want but only at 1360 x 768 pixels.
Anyway, I'm benchmarking some games these days and I'll post it on my website as soon as I finish. However, most of the games I play are racing ones and most of them retain a 60 FPS gameplay, which is not suitable for benchmarking. Race Driver: GRID seems okay but that's the only game I have which allows me to disable vertical sync.
Do you have any suggestion other than Crysis, Call of Duty, World in Conflict, Far Cry, etc?
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: Biomorphic
Originally posted by: apoppin
you can't do the stock test at the stock settings?
- Vantage is not important except for showing changes in the same system .. play games!
.. at any rate, i think my benches showed you lost nothing practical in frame rates with a 4870-1GB on a 1.0 PCIe MB compared to 2.0; GTX280 showed a little difference.
PCIe 3.0 is out and should be available in new MBs this Summer
I can't do the stock test at a stock run because the native resolution of my monitor is 1360 x 768 pixels. So, I can only do the GPU tests with any presets I want but only at 1360 x 768 pixels.
Anyway, I'm benchmarking some games these days and I'll post it on my website as soon as I finish. However, most of the games I play are racing ones and most of them retain a 60 FPS gameplay, which is not suitable for benchmarking. Race Driver: GRID seems okay but that's the only game I have which allows me to disable vertical sync.
Do you have any suggestion other than Crysis, Call of Duty, World in Conflict, Far Cry, etc?
i have many suggestions. i currently bench 13 games every month with each set of vendor's WHQL drivers. i am adding 3 more this coming month [SC/HAWX/BattleForge]
the problem is that you generally need to own the games to run the benches. There are some standalone demos; unfortunately [or fortunately, depending on PoV] they are almost never patched or updated.
Here are some current free ones:
WiC
Crysis
CoJ
HL2-Lost Coast
LP
X3-TC
HAWX
BattleForge
PT Boats
STAKLKER: CS
There are a host of less known and older game demos available to bench.
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