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I got a HIS model for $199CAD (remember everything is more expensive in Canada). Came with the Black Box and Call of Juarez.
My system:
Q6600 @ 3GHz
8GB RAM
Vista64
Catalyst Hotfix
Overclocked on stock, card is idling at 79 Celsius... rather warm. However, under load it's only about 89 Celsius. Something tells me Powerplay isn't quite working. The fan does spin up though when it's under load so at least that works. It's not horribly loud but since I have a quiet system, the noise sticks out like a sore thumb.
Opened up the CCC and hit Auto-tune under Overdrive. Auto-tune gives me 690MHz core and 1153MHz memory. Not too bad considering how crappy the stock cooler is. I've put on a Coolink GFXChilla after this.
I'll be benchmarking WoC, Bioshock and HL2:Ep2.
With the GFXChilla (a cooler designed to be compact and quiet rather than powerful), the new idle temperature is 42 Celsius. Quite an improvement if I say so myself. Load temperature is about 62 Celsius. Again overclocked.
Looking at the stock HSF, I'd say the application and pressure is barely par. There was too much TIM applied but at least the pressure smoothed it out a bit (and pushed a lot of it to the edges). The ram has only sticky thermal pads.
Ambient temperature is in the neighborhood of 24-25 Celsius.
World of Conflict result using built-in bench. 1680x1050. Very High (which sets 4xAA/4xAF and DX10).
28 Avg
11 Min
50 Max
A playthrough of Bioshock in 1680x1050 DX10 Max settings are similar to Anandtech's results. The experience is buttery smooth and the FPS so high that I wish AA worked in DX10 mode.
I was skeptical about the 8xAA thing but from my own tests, it does appear to be applied.
Using my custom settings in WoC (because Very High isn't that smooth and I prefer smooth), the difference between 4xAA and 8xAA is about 2-3FPS... 49FPS versus 51FPS. Interestingly enough 2xAA is about 53FPS while NoAA is 55FPS.
Going from 4xAA to 8xAA costs less than 10%.
I've started to test the CFAA modes now too. Under the same settings, 12xAA (4xAA+ED) is about 40FPS. For 24xAA (8xAA+ED), it is 31FPS.
A peek at the AA in-game. Between 8xAA and 4xAA the difference is quite apparent. 8xAA vs 24xAA not so much (but still there if you zoom in).
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4756/4xaapreviewln0.png
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1299/8xaapreviewmb7.png
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3050/24xaapreviewbh2.png
I've added screenshots for HL2:Ep2 to SkyDrive. The penalty for AA is still unbelievably low.
Did some more tests at 4xAA with the various filters.
Box: 51
Narrow: 45
Wide: 45
Edge Detect: 40
Just to hammer this in, 8xAA is 49FPS.
It is cheaper to do 8xMSAA than to use CFAA
There are also TSAA results included. Taken at 4xAA/8xAF, 1680x1050
The penalty for turning that on is also really low. However, all the modes look identical for some reason. Can anyone tell which mode is really being applied?
http://cid-1b1908eb94064033.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public
I got a HIS model for $199CAD (remember everything is more expensive in Canada). Came with the Black Box and Call of Juarez.
My system:
Q6600 @ 3GHz
8GB RAM
Vista64
Catalyst Hotfix
Overclocked on stock, card is idling at 79 Celsius... rather warm. However, under load it's only about 89 Celsius. Something tells me Powerplay isn't quite working. The fan does spin up though when it's under load so at least that works. It's not horribly loud but since I have a quiet system, the noise sticks out like a sore thumb.
Opened up the CCC and hit Auto-tune under Overdrive. Auto-tune gives me 690MHz core and 1153MHz memory. Not too bad considering how crappy the stock cooler is. I've put on a Coolink GFXChilla after this.
I'll be benchmarking WoC, Bioshock and HL2:Ep2.
With the GFXChilla (a cooler designed to be compact and quiet rather than powerful), the new idle temperature is 42 Celsius. Quite an improvement if I say so myself. Load temperature is about 62 Celsius. Again overclocked.
Looking at the stock HSF, I'd say the application and pressure is barely par. There was too much TIM applied but at least the pressure smoothed it out a bit (and pushed a lot of it to the edges). The ram has only sticky thermal pads.
Ambient temperature is in the neighborhood of 24-25 Celsius.
World of Conflict result using built-in bench. 1680x1050. Very High (which sets 4xAA/4xAF and DX10).
28 Avg
11 Min
50 Max
A playthrough of Bioshock in 1680x1050 DX10 Max settings are similar to Anandtech's results. The experience is buttery smooth and the FPS so high that I wish AA worked in DX10 mode.
I was skeptical about the 8xAA thing but from my own tests, it does appear to be applied.
Using my custom settings in WoC (because Very High isn't that smooth and I prefer smooth), the difference between 4xAA and 8xAA is about 2-3FPS... 49FPS versus 51FPS. Interestingly enough 2xAA is about 53FPS while NoAA is 55FPS.
Going from 4xAA to 8xAA costs less than 10%.
I've started to test the CFAA modes now too. Under the same settings, 12xAA (4xAA+ED) is about 40FPS. For 24xAA (8xAA+ED), it is 31FPS.
A peek at the AA in-game. Between 8xAA and 4xAA the difference is quite apparent. 8xAA vs 24xAA not so much (but still there if you zoom in).
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4756/4xaapreviewln0.png
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1299/8xaapreviewmb7.png
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3050/24xaapreviewbh2.png
I've added screenshots for HL2:Ep2 to SkyDrive. The penalty for AA is still unbelievably low.
Did some more tests at 4xAA with the various filters.
Box: 51
Narrow: 45
Wide: 45
Edge Detect: 40
Just to hammer this in, 8xAA is 49FPS.
It is cheaper to do 8xMSAA than to use CFAA
There are also TSAA results included. Taken at 4xAA/8xAF, 1680x1050
The penalty for turning that on is also really low. However, all the modes look identical for some reason. Can anyone tell which mode is really being applied?
http://cid-1b1908eb94064033.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public
