CPU Bottleneck? Q9550

[Porter_]

did you had the exact same setup minus the cpu and mobo or did you add more?

new setup. in my testing with the Q6600 it was fairly clear the cpu was holding me back in BC2. min graphics settings at 800x600 produced the same framerate as max settings at 1920x1080; the only differentiation being gpu usage.

 

[Porter_]

BC2 is probably an outlier here though, as most games don't show that kind of performance increase.

yep i would agree with that. Black Ops is another on the short list. Crysis as well, though marginal compared to the other two.

 

[Spooony]

you're missing the point with the 3dmark scores I put up,

if the Q6600 was bottlenecking the 560ti, it would of showed in the scores a great deal, but it doesn't

but anyway here's a couple more numbers then I'm thru with this..

IndianScout - Futuremark..

you could smack a 2500k with a q6600 with a couple of ssds on a Pci-e raid controller. 3dmark is heavily influence by disk performance. Some of the overclockers coming from the old ages also now the nick and tricks of what influence what. I'm trying to see what the users who have issues have in common. 3dmark scores ain't going to point us to the problem. My suspicion is realtek drivers. Especially if they use the onboard sound or lan.

 

[Spooony]

new setup. in my testing with the Q6600 it was fairly clear the cpu was holding me back in BC2. min graphics settings at 800x600 produced the same framerate as max settings at 1920x1080; the only differentiation being gpu usage.

sorry to ask so much questions but did you use your soundcard with it or did you use the onboard?

 

[nxcess]

you're missing the point with the 3dmark scores I put up,

if the Q6600 was bottlenecking the 560ti, it would of showed in the scores a great deal, but it doesn't

You can't tell a cpu bottleneck from sythetic benchmarks, IMHO.

 

[Porter_]

sorry to ask so much questions but did you use your soundcard with it or did you use the onboard?

X-Fi Xtremegamer on the Q6600, on-board Realtek on the i5-2500K (and currently X-Fi Titanium HD with no effect on performance compared to the on-board). all drivers up to date on both systems.

 

[Spooony]

X-Fi Xtremegamer on the Q6600, on-board Realtek on the i5-2500K (and currently X-Fi Titanium HD with no effect on performance compared to the on-board). all drivers up to date on both systems.

yeah. Not saying its the onboard sound Codec. If you use a Amd gpu then you have 3 realtek devices in your system if you use the onboard lan/sound.
1. The Codecs on Amd gpus are from realtek
2. Onboard Codecs
3. Lan controller are from Realtek.
Actually, in Vista/Win7, there's several abstract layers for the sound which makes the sound hardware irrelevant.
it goes:
Audio API->Application Level Mixer->System Sound mixer(mixes all sound streams from all apps)->Drivers->Hardware

The new Audio API requires the sound to be
32bit floats and the application has to make sure its the same sample rate matches the sound output. I know that BC2 outputs 16bit, so this means they're using the old DirectX audio API which means it goes

Emulated DirectX->Audio API->Application Level Mixer->System Sound mixer->Drivers->Hardware

Your soundcard has nothing to do with the game. The game itself has no knowledge of anything about the soundcard. Each abstraction level is 100% independent of each other which makes it very robust.

Anyone who got problems with it. boot into safe mode use a driver sweeper to remove all the realtek junk. Then reboot and let windows use its generic drivers. See if it makes a difference