Are you you running high anti alias settings with this card???
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Started 1 month ago by ftd86
hey, thanks for the replies guys. My monitor's optimal res. is 1600x1200, so I try to play at it as often as possible. WillC, are your buffering and filter settings in game, or driver based?
I tried a number of resolutions from 1024x768 up to 1920x1440, but there is minimal performance gain. I think I'm being bottlenecked somewhere, I'm going to go run a few performance benchmarks to see if I...
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ftd86 replied 1 month ago
the driver settings are set to "application based" and in game I have AA set to 2x. I just downloaded ATI tool, I'll see if I can fiddle with some settings.
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ftd86 replied 3 weeks, 6 days ago
I went with the assumption that it was the CPU and decided to give myself the most headroom for an overclock by removing the protective casing on the CPU itself. I replaced the old thermal paste with some artic silver and placed the heatsink directly onto the CPU. I went from around 54 degrees celsius under load to around 41. I'm just shy of 3GHz on my opty and it's definitely noticeable in game ...
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BlueMak replied 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Eh, do you mean the heatsink? Because if you removed the actual CPU casing, I don't think that is very safe and surprised that it still works.
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OldBuzzard replied 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Actually, that was something that a lot of OCers did with those processors.
By putting the HSF directy on the CPU you get MUCH better heat transfer.
It's pretty safe, as long as you are careful in removing the heat spreader.
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greg1174 replied 3 weeks, 5 days ago
I have a system much like yours and have had absolutely no problems with any game with the exception of Crysis which doesn't look perfect but is still playable. My system specs are:
AMD Opteron 2.6GHZ (No overclocking)
2GB of OCZ DDR400 2-2-2-5
HIS HD 4850 512MB (Shortly to Crossfire)
1 Aegia Physx Card
2 Velocirator 150GB Raid 0
Every game is more than playable with this system and ...
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ftd86 replied 3 weeks, 5 days ago
does the Physx card really help out a lot? I may have to pick one of those up. I did play Crysis at 1280x1024 with everything set to low and I had a pretty consistent 25-45fps.
On to that comment about only being able to see at 60 frames per second. This is definitely true when watching a video, but in terms of feeling the responsiveness in game, it's definitely noticeable. I can certainly ...
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DJ BIG T replied 3 weeks, 5 days ago
i dont think so it just helps out on certin thins like flag movement explosives and other stuff but for performance i dont think it will help...
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ftd86 replied 3 weeks, 4 days ago
yeah, sounds like I'm in need of a system upgrade before long. I've pretty much taken my socket 939 board as far as I can go besides getting another HD 4850.
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