Letter from the Producer XLII

[Pseudopsia]

You need to overclock your Intel CPU if you want to hit 8k with old benchmark.

High res single GTX 680 slightly overclocked with 3930k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, 2400 Mhz memory.


Low res single GTX 680 slightly overclocked with 3930k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, 2400 Mhz memory.

[KatoKinko]

You need to overclock your Intel CPU if you want to hit 8k with old benchmark.

High res single GTX 680 slightly overclocked with 3930k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, 2400 Mhz memory.

Low res single GTX 680 slightly overclocked with 3930k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, 2400 Mhz memory.

Wow, I have a i7 3930k overclocked to 4.0 Ghz, GTX 680, and ram speed of 1600 Mhz.
Low res was 8582
High res was 7387

I'm scared to overclock my computer anymore because I don't want it to overheat. Pluse I'm still fine-tuning my computer.
Any advice you can share?

Edit
(To also keep from getting too off topic)
I hope Yoshi's media tour will help promote the game well. I really want this game to do great!

[Altena]

You need to overclock your Intel CPU if you want to hit 8k with old benchmark.

High res single GTX 680 slightly overclocked with 3930k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, 2400 Mhz memory.


Low res single GTX 680 slightly overclocked with 3930k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, 2400 Mhz memory.

I have almost the exact same system and can only hit 7.5k... My CPU is 3770k but OC'd to 4.5 Ghz, and my ASUS GTX 680 4GDDR5 is running at 1225 Mhz..

I am an OC noob though.. If I tried clocking my GPU to 1250MHz, the screen goes black momentarily and an error says that the GPU failed (So presuming 1225 is my limit).

It might not help that I am running dual monitors? I have no idea though.

[Pseudopsia]

I have almost the exact same system and can only hit 7.5k... My CPU is 3770k but OC'd to 4.5 Ghz, and my ASUS GTX 680 4GDDR5 is running at 1225 Mhz..

I am an OC noob though.. If I tried clocking my GPU to 1250MHz, the screen goes black momentarily and an error says that the GPU failed (So presuming 1225 is my limit).

It might not help that I am running dual monitors? I have no idea though.

I don't think dual monitors should affect score that much, you can always disable one to find out. If you're using Aero glass in windows 7 this will hurt score. Also my 3930k has 6 cores and memory is running at 2400 Mhz speed XMP Profile 1, which will boost my score a bit in CPU intense areas of the benchmark on high res.

Screenshot was from a long time ago when I was initially testing my PC. 1250 Mhz would crashing on me after playing games for a few hours. I did go back to 1225. What I didn't do is increase memory speed of GPU in that screen shot. This will increase your score as well. Basically you increase in increments till you see any artifacts, if you see artifacts you past your limit.

Check you low res score to see what your CPU and memory can do. If it's above 8k you should be able to overclock GPU to break 8k in high res.

Below are my stable settings I play games with. Notice the score is even higher with memory overclocked. Click on image for full screen.

[Altena]

I don't think dual monitors should affect score that much, you can always disable one to find out.

Screenshot was from a long time ago when I was initially testing my PC. 1250 Mhz would crashing on me after playing games for a few hours. I did go back to 1225. What I didn't do is increase memory speed of GPU in that screen shot. This will increase your score as well. Basically you increase in increments till you see any artifacts, if you see artifacts you past your limit.

Check you low res score to see what your CPU and memory can do. If it's above 8k you should be able to overclock GPU to break 8k in high res.

Below are my stable settings I play games with. Notice the score is even higher with memory overclocked. Click on image for full screen.

Nice pointers Pseudo.

I am working at the moment so can't properly test the memory clock but I just bumped it up a touch to see how it would affect my scores.. It did push it a little higher but not drastically. I will throw up a screenshot for the high res.. I will do a low res bench in a few mins and throw it up on here as well.



Woops, forgot to edit out my 2nd monitor in my screenie. Just disregard that.

For the LQ bench, also shows my GPU-Z & CPU-Z info better: