Hello! its me again!!!!! *cricket noises* >.> <.< I hate you guys.
Anyways I posted that topic about wondering which graphics card to get, I just got it today I ended up going with the 680. And while I am not complaining about the score I am getting on the benchmark I am kinda bummed to see my score being so low compared to other ppl getting 7k-8.5k with basically the exact same set up as me.
CPU: AMD phenom 1090T
RAM: 8 Gigs
GPU: GTX 680
And was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on this? maybe they just got much higher scores because they where overclocking it and i am not? if thats the case than I guess i am happy with my score i dont really like to over clock stuff. But is there anything else to tweak the graphics card other than overclocking it and getting the newest drivers for it? I went into device manager and it says i have the most up to date drivers.
Again if you can help much appreciated, if not its ok cause the score is great as of now when not running fraps i score a little over 6k with everything on maximum (everyones probably thinking why is this guy complaining right?) thx for your time in reading this. Below I will post a video I shot comparing my 460 and the 680.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viqzQ...ature=youtu.be
Graphics advice (follow up - semi resolved)
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03-22-2013, 06:40 AMNorackGraphics advice (follow up - semi resolved)
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03-22-2013, 07:02 AMDhalmel
I'm a little lost. What is your benchmark score? I would say your CPU is bottlenecking your card.
Overclock the CPU for better results and seeing you're on Thuban, overclock the CPU-NB also.
Also you're running fraps...don't record while your testing. give results without fraps -
03-22-2013, 07:03 AMNorack
Highest I have gotten was 6,160 with everything on maximum. Just wondering cause i saw someone in the post your benchmark scores thread with the exact same CPU as me and he got a little over 8k maybe even over 9k.
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03-22-2013, 07:07 AMDhalmel
Same CPU, but was it at the same clock speed?
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03-22-2013, 07:08 AMNorack
I would assume? He just said it was a AMD phenom II 1090T (he said black edition idk if mine is black edition or not, does that make a difference?) same as mine.
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03-22-2013, 07:12 AMDhalmel
People with black edition cpus typically overclock it, and yes 1090T is a BE chip.
Link to the post and question and make sure the score was for highest setting. -
03-22-2013, 07:19 AMNorackidk how to directly link it but i saw alot of other scores with 1090T's and they got like 6.8k and stuff kinda around where i am at and they said they did OC there cards. So this guy was just lying..............or did something crazy that idk about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dzian
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03-22-2013, 07:22 AMDhalmel
Yeah I'm calling bull crap on that result.
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03-22-2013, 07:25 AMNorack
ok thats just what i was wondering cause i upgraded basically based on his score cause he has pretty much the same stuff as me and i was thinking, dang all i need is a new graphics card and i can get 10k+ sweet!!! lol. guess i got played huh? /cries, eh o well atleast now i can comfortably play on maximum settings i guess XD least i know my new card is working. thx for the help ^.^
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03-22-2013, 07:31 AMDhalmel
You can play with ARR with everything on fine, just turn on Occlusion Culling. As that will disable the game from rendering things beyond from what you can see, it is probably the one optimization feature most people can turn on that 90% won't notice in terms of graphic quality.
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03-22-2013, 08:24 AMVoltaAsura
This was my suggestion to another on the forums:
Few things you could check out:
1. Power settings: under control panel, click "power options" make sure you are on "full performance". You can also take the power settings a bit further and tweak them more if you like, but checking the box should be all you need. I suggest this because newer computers and newer hardware have better power saving features than they used to. When the power options are set to anything other than "full performance", you aren't really running your hardware to its potential, its going to be limited to save power, thus giving you less performance...whether it be a few CPU multipliers, PCI-E limitations...just enabling this, in itself can make a HUGE difference.
2. VIDEO card drivers: This is a big one. You have a newer card, and for that reason not everything you throw at your card will work to its full potential. It takes a while for drivers to catch up, and smooth things out on the performance side. That being said, always update your video card drivers to the very latest version to ensure maximum performance. The most recent version, as today is 314.07 and 314.21 for the latest beta...I would suggest the beta driver, as most of the fixes in these releases apply to the most recent series of gpus. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
3. Direct X: Make sure your Direct X is up to date. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...ils.aspx?id=35 -
03-22-2013, 08:40 AMDhalmelQuote:
Originally Posted by VoltaAsura
I agree with the power option suggestion, it should make your bench score a little higher.
As long as you have your C States enabled on your bios, your cpu will clock down when it's idle or passively being used and stay at full speed when it's actively being used. -
03-23-2013, 12:44 PMNorack
thx guys i have done all of that. One thing i find odd is i ran this benchmark like 10 times right when i installed it and got pretty consistenly 6k scores. Now i have researched how to OC it and am now OC'ing it. and after OC'ing it know i am only getting like 5.6k-5.8k scores <,< any idea whats up with that?
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03-23-2013, 01:21 PMNorack
I figured it out I was playing in fullscreen mode. I was always under the assumption that games ran better in fullscreen mode as opposed to fullscreen(windowed) mode? Anyways I switched it over to fullscreen windowed and now getting close to 7k results ^.^