Conroe E6800 Extreme Gaming Performance

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SixFootDuo

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I beat FEAR, the euro version back when it came out, and at the time I was running pretty much top of the line hardware and I remember even then I had to turn down a few things to get it running nice and smooth. I also remember, it still wasn't silky smooth. Fast but nothing like what it is now.

Just reinstalled it, first game I've tried with the E6800 Extreme and I am blown away.

Night and day difference.

This is a game that when all the eye candy is turned on, will punish your PC.

I did the little performance test you can do, and with vsync enabled, all bells and whistles turned on and running @ 1600 x 1200, It was 60fps across the board in all areas.

E6800 Extreme paired with an eVGA 7950X2
 
Is that a new video card you have too that contributes to the night and day difference along with the new CPU?

Also, I haven't gamed much and stopped for a while after owning a plain vanilla 6800 card and Athlon XP 3000+. It worked decently in the Fear demo at 1280*960 with everything up except for AA and those soft shadows (can't recall if there was anything higher to go like lighting and such). And the game seemed slow in some parts while walking for no reaason but during a busy action scene with tons of things going on it was smooth.

So with that perfomance you got there, at 1600*1200, what level of AA and AF were you using and when you said everything turned up did that include soft shadows?
 
You have to love the performance from the C2D chips, cant wait for my 6700 to show its face...
 
That's really cool.
It's too bad that you have to wait for the hardware to catch up to the games though. I always thought that gamers got jewed in that regard.
 
Yeah, I'm sure you had SLIed 7950s back when FEAR was released :rolleyes:

It has been shown that, when you turn on eye-candy and higher resolutions, the difference Conroe processors make over equivilannt-clocked AMD processors is around %10 or less. You just can't use the extra CPU performance once you turn all the GPU-limited goodies on.

Mind you, Conroe offers some IMPRESSIVE performance advantages in other benchmarks, but I'm specifically concentrating on the gaming aspect here.
 
SixFootDuo said:
I beat FEAR, the euro version back when it came out, and at the time I was running pretty much top of the line hardware and I remember even then I had to turn down a few things to get it running nice and smooth. I also remember, it still wasn't silky smooth. Fast but nothing like what it is now.

Just reinstalled it, first game I've tried with the E6800 Extreme and I am blown away.

Night and day difference.

This is a game that when all the eye candy is turned on, will punish your PC.

I did the little performance test you can do, and with vsync enabled, all bells and whistles turned on and running @ 1600 x 1200, It was 60fps across the board in all areas.

E6800 Extreme paired with an eVGA 7950X2
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how do you like the WiFi on that board. I'm looking at this board for my Conroe build.
 
I checked on the motherboard and it supports Crossfire. How did you manage to have the 7950GX2 in there? Am i missing something?
 
jhego said:
I checked on the motherboard and it supports Crossfire. How did you manage to have the 7950GX2 in there? Am i missing something?
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The GX2 doesnt require an SLi board - the PCIe switch chip is on the card itself.
 
psychot|K said:
That's really cool.
It's too bad that you have to wait for the hardware to catch up to the games though. I always thought that gamers got jewed in that regard.
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Its very sad that members will get banned for consolve vs pc threads, but saying that a gamer "will get jewed" doesn't even raise an eye from the staff nor other members. There is absolutely no way to put a comment like that "into context" either. It is a comment that would not be made face to face with strangers in real life, and if it was that person would probably be laying in a hospital bed somewhere. Just because you are on the internet, doesn't mean you are invincible.
 
So, did you ever play FEAR using your old processor and that new video card? I'm just wondering if the night and day difference was more attributed to the video card then the processor.
 
It's the combination of the two I think.

This E6800 running @ 3.5GHz is just blazing blazing fast. The 7950X2 doesn't hurt lol.

I still need to do some work, like memory settings but I am sure I can improve my overclock another 100 - 200 or 300MHz

I doubt I will go to water, but I really can't say for sure yet.
 
terminator02 said:
Its very sad that members will get banned for consolve vs pc threads, but saying that a gamer "will get jewed" doesn't even raise an eye from the staff nor other members. There is absolutely no way to put a comment like that "into context" either. It is a comment that would not be made face to face with strangers in real life, and if it was that person would probably be laying in a hospital bed somewhere. Just because you are on the internet, doesn't mean you are invincible.
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OK?
 
robberbaron said:
The GX2 doesnt require an SLi board - the PCIe switch chip is on the card itself.
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oops, i misunderstood, i thought he had 2 x 7950GX2... I also got confused with the 7950GX2 being totally one. I guess the only downfall is that he can't go SLI on this mobo, just with ATI grafx card.
 
SixFootDuo said:
I think you can go SLI, just not using the 7950X2
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I thought crossfire boards can only do ATI's like SLI boards can only go Nvidia. :confused:
 
I guess that I am not 100% sure. I was just re-hashing what I heard someone else say. Not a wise move but sounded reasonable at the time.

Chances are I am wrong.
 
Yep, it supports crossfire, so it doesn't support SLI. That's okay though, since you have SLI on a single card... ;)
 
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