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Cpu limited? Benchmarks?

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jkrafcik

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Hi all,

I just bought a GTX 460 1GB (Gigabyte) to replace my 8800GT. So far, I've only played Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and although I can increase my resolution to 1600x1200, at medium quality my frames still stutter from time to time. Is it possible that I'm getting CPU limited with my Q6600?

Also, in general, what are the favored user-friendly benchmark packages favored today for making sure your system performs as well as other peer systems? Want to make sure that's not some weird hardware or software issue, especially since my evga 650i Ultra motherboard is an engineering sample that I can't update the bios on....

Thanks!
 
If it's at stock clock it's very likely you're CPU limited. Very generally speaking you need to be at 3GHz+ for a lot of semi-recent games to have a chance of being GPU limited and that's normally at a higher resolution (e.g. 1920x1080).

Edit: Here's a review for BF:BC2's CPU scaling:

http://www.techspot.com/article/255-battlefield-bad-company2-performance/page7.html
It's an oddball as it doesn't scale well until well beyond 3GHz.

Edit2: This one even has the Q6600 in the review:
http://translate.google.cz/translat...ompany-2-fyzika-predevsim?start=5&sl=cs&tl=en
Apparently OCing probably won't help you much in BF:BC2 not even at lower resolutions...
 
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Xzyrus said:
If it's at stock clock it's very likely you're CPU limited. Very generally speaking you need to be at 3GHz+ for a lot of semi-recent games to have a chance of being GPU limited and that's normally at a higher resolution (e.g. 1920x1080).

Edit: Here's a review for BF:BC2's CPU scaling:

http://www.techspot.com/article/255-battlefield-bad-company2-performance/page7.html
It's an oddball as it doesn't scale well until well beyond 3GHz.

Edit2: This one even has the Q6600 in the review:
http://translate.google.cz/translat...ompany-2-fyzika-predevsim?start=5&sl=cs&tl=en
Apparently OCing probably won't help you much in BF:BC2 not even at lower resolutions...
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nice find there Xzyrus, yup that might be it. Have you tried over clocking the cpu? Also what psu do you have and how old is it?
 
Definitely try overclocking it if you haven't. 2.4GHz is pretty slow. Also maybe try do a clean install of the driver if you haven't.
 
Really good find with the q6600 in the review! I had been trying to push my q6600 farther to get better performance in this game, but seeing 1fps difference from 3 to 3.6ghz on the q6600 makes me not want to waste my time.

edit: to the Op, if you are at 2.4, 3Ghz is pretty easy to hit on any q6600. 333x9 is the typical setting with maybe a bump or 2 in the Vcore. I get better temps than I used to at stock with the stock cooler.
 
Wow -- I installed the 260 beta drivers, and that makes a world of difference. I can now run 1600x1200 high settings with barely a stutter. Thanks for the tip -- seems like it's more a driver issue than a CPU starvation issue!
 
This is why I love Hard!!! There is so much knowledge here and the members are great for the most part.
 
jkrafcik said:
Wow -- I installed the 260 beta drivers, and that makes a world of difference. I can now run 1600x1200 high settings with barely a stutter. Thanks for the tip -- seems like it's more a driver issue than a CPU starvation issue!
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Yeah, the only reason I knew it was a video issue is because when I bought my GTX 460, the only game where I couldn't crank the details higher than my old HD 4850 was BFBC2. Then I caught a few threads about the issue and got informed.

Once I got the driver update, I was able to crank the AA levels like mad.
 
Still using the old drivers but no problems here.
1080p, 16Q AA, max settings. 85+ fps drops into the mid 60's, spikes in the 130's
Vsync on otherwise I get screen tearing.

Heard about gpu's downclocking to 3d app level instead of 3d performance level.
Try setting power management to performance in the 3d settings tab of the nvidia config.

Heard it solves problems aswell.
 
Nathalex said:
Still using the old drivers but no problems here.
1080p, 16Q AA, max settings. 85+ fps drops into the mid 60's, spikes in the 130's
Vsync on otherwise I get screen tearing.

Heard about gpu's downclocking to 3d app level instead of 3d performance level.
Try setting power management to performance in the 3d settings tab of the nvidia config.

Heard it solves problems aswell.
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um you don't have vsync on if you are getting 85fps with spikes to 130 on a 60Hz monitor.
 
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