System:
3.0 GHz P4, Hyperthreading, 800MHz FSB (3DMark Shows 200Mhz FSB, why???)
2.0 Gb PC3200 2-3-2-6-1 Kingston HyperX Ram
P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
ATI made X850XT Platinum Edition
First, My score with my old ATI 9800pro:
CPU: 5% OC to 3.15Ghz
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot. (Norton System Works 2005 has like 8 processes, 2 of which won't terminate)
Score: 2724
BF2 Settings: I played with no AA or AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1024x768. Gameplay was smooth 95% of the time. I would get unnacceptable FPS on the Iron Gator and on some 64 player games.
Testing with the new X850XT PE:
CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot.
Score: 4801
CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5745 (HOLY CRAP NEVER PLAY BF2 WITH NORTON IN THE BACKGROUND)
CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5996 (wow getting rid of those 2 norton processes got me 4x more than a 10%OC)
CPU: 5% OC to 3.15GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6045 (This is the OC setting I currently play BF2 at)
BF2 Settings: I played with 4x AA and medium AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1280x1024. FPS is in the 30-50 range, seems low!!! Drops to around 20FPS inside the Iron Gator aircraft storage area!
CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6165 (need to replace thermal grease on heatsink before pushing the OC higher)
Comments:
Well I spent just over $400 on this new graphics card and it has more than doubled my 3DMark05 Score, unfortuantely I dont think it has doubled the BF2 video quality. I was playing with all settings high and on 1600x1200 at first but I was getting choppyness whenever I moved the mouse quickly. I got the same things at lower settings as well until I did something to fix it, I dont really know what fixed it. I noticed that the box that says shaders are optimizing was not appearing after my changes to the video settings. Shaders were optimized eventually and I am guessing that is what made the choppyness go away but im not certain. Never the less, my FPS still varies around 30-50 depending on how graphics intesive the area is, 20FPS in the Iron Gator hull. This sounds low to me. I expected to be able to run pretty high settings and never get less than 50FPS.
Why does 3DMark05 show that I have 200MHz FSB when I should have 800MHz? The people with higher 3DMark05 scores online show an 800MHz FSB.
Please comment or make comparisons.
3.0 GHz P4, Hyperthreading, 800MHz FSB (3DMark Shows 200Mhz FSB, why???)
2.0 Gb PC3200 2-3-2-6-1 Kingston HyperX Ram
P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
ATI made X850XT Platinum Edition
First, My score with my old ATI 9800pro:
CPU: 5% OC to 3.15Ghz
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot. (Norton System Works 2005 has like 8 processes, 2 of which won't terminate)
Score: 2724
BF2 Settings: I played with no AA or AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1024x768. Gameplay was smooth 95% of the time. I would get unnacceptable FPS on the Iron Gator and on some 64 player games.
Testing with the new X850XT PE:
CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot.
Score: 4801
CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5745 (HOLY CRAP NEVER PLAY BF2 WITH NORTON IN THE BACKGROUND)
CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5996 (wow getting rid of those 2 norton processes got me 4x more than a 10%OC)
CPU: 5% OC to 3.15GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6045 (This is the OC setting I currently play BF2 at)
BF2 Settings: I played with 4x AA and medium AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1280x1024. FPS is in the 30-50 range, seems low!!! Drops to around 20FPS inside the Iron Gator aircraft storage area!
CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6165 (need to replace thermal grease on heatsink before pushing the OC higher)
Comments:
Well I spent just over $400 on this new graphics card and it has more than doubled my 3DMark05 Score, unfortuantely I dont think it has doubled the BF2 video quality. I was playing with all settings high and on 1600x1200 at first but I was getting choppyness whenever I moved the mouse quickly. I got the same things at lower settings as well until I did something to fix it, I dont really know what fixed it. I noticed that the box that says shaders are optimizing was not appearing after my changes to the video settings. Shaders were optimized eventually and I am guessing that is what made the choppyness go away but im not certain. Never the less, my FPS still varies around 30-50 depending on how graphics intesive the area is, 20FPS in the Iron Gator hull. This sounds low to me. I expected to be able to run pretty high settings and never get less than 50FPS.
Why does 3DMark05 show that I have 200MHz FSB when I should have 800MHz? The people with higher 3DMark05 scores online show an 800MHz FSB.
Please comment or make comparisons.
Last edited by Adonlude (2006-01-13 12:05:58)