Well, I'm finally getting around to participating in the various benchmarking threads. I'm a little underwhelmed by the performance of my 955BE. OCing the GPUs made hardly any difference, but bumping the CPU seems to have had more of an effect. Both runs shown.
Stock:
OC:
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I upgraded enough parts in all my modernish PC's during the last year, so I guess a new series of benchmarks are in order.
1. Main Rig: Xeon E5450, 4GB RAM, GTX770 2GB, Windows 7 32bit (was 32.83fps @1920x1050 very high detail and 56.37fps high detail with C2Q Q9550, 4GB RAM, GTX560Ti 1GB, Windows 7 32bit):
2. Daughter's PC: Phenom II X6 1090T, 8GB RAM, GTX750 2GB, Windows 10 64bit (was 6.73fps @1920x1050 very high detail and 13.18fps high detail with Phenom II X6 1090T, 8GB RAM, GT710 2GB, Windows 10 64bit):
3. My XP Rig: Opteron 180, 4GB RAM, GTX560Ti 1GB, Windows XP SP3 32bit (was 31.34fps @1680x1050 high detail and 35.88fps @1280x1024 high detail with Opteron 180, 4GB RAM, GTS250 1GB, Windows XP SP3 32bit):
4. HTPC: C2Q Q9550, 4GB RAM, GT1030 2GB, Windows 7 32bit (no previous test results, was a C2D E8400 with HD 5450, so did not bother at that time to test it):
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000
tayyare wrote:I upgraded enough parts in all my modernish PC's during the last year, so I guess a new series of benchmarks are in order. […] Show full quote
I upgraded enough parts in all my modernish PC's during the last year, so I guess a new series of benchmarks are in order.
1. Main Rig: Xeon E5450, 4GB RAM, GTX770 2GB, Windows 7 32bit (was 32.83fps @1920x1050 very high detail and 56.37fps high detail with C2Q Q9550, 4GB RAM, GTX560Ti 1GB, Windows 7 32bit):
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2. Daughter's PC: Phenom II X6 1090T, 8GB RAM, GTX750 2GB, Windows 10 64bit (was 6.73fps @1920x1050 very high detail and 13.18fps high detail with Phenom II X6 1090T, 8GB RAM, GT710 2GB, Windows 10 64bit):
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3. My XP Rig: Opteron 180, 4GB RAM, GTX560Ti 1GB, Windows XP SP3 32bit (was 31.34fps @1680x1050 high detail and 35.88fps @1280x1024 high detail with Opteron 180, 4GB RAM, GTS250 1GB, Windows XP SP3 32bit):
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4. HTPC: C2Q Q9550, 4GB RAM, GT1030 2GB, Windows 7 32bit (no previous test results, was a C2D E8400 with HD 5450, so did not bother at that time to test it):
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something looks off with your average FPS, it shoudn't be in the 1000's, unless your at 800x600 all low, and then maybe a GTX 1080 could break 1k in Crysis
Put a period after the first two digits. It's related to our locale settings (number format) in Windows I guess. We use, for example, 1.000,00, not 1,000.00, in where I live. 🤣
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000
Put a period after the first two digits. It's related to our locale settings (number format) in Windows I guess. We use, for example, 1.000,00, not 1,000.00, in where I live. 🤣
Pentium 4 3,06GHz @ 3,4GHz (PGA 478), P4i945GC, 2x2GB DDR2 594MHz RAM (CPU-z is wrong DRAM Frequency is 2x FSB speed, not 3:2), "Devil" R9 390X. Windows 7 x86 SP1 (all updates).
Using VSR with Custom Resolutions I did 2560x2048 test with 16xQ MSAA on top.
Damm I can only just fit everything on the screen at 1280x1024 (yes I only have a 19" monitor).
Result from my "main" rig, did better than expected for a C2Q with a frankly rubbish GT710.
However seriously debating changing the GPU out for something older and "downgrading" to WinXP 64 on this, even though there is XP drivers for the GT710 I got issues with XP when I tried a dual boot setup before.
CarlHopkinsUK wrote:Damm I can only just fit everything on the screen at 1280x1024 (yes I only have a 19" monitor). […] Show full quote
Damm I can only just fit everything on the screen at 1280x1024 (yes I only have a 19" monitor).
Bench_GB41mQ8400.JPG
Result from my "main" rig, did better than expected for a C2Q with a frankly rubbish GT710.
However seriously debating changing the GPU out for something older and "downgrading" to WinXP 64 on this, even though there is XP drivers for the GT710 I got issues with XP when I tried a dual boot setup before.
I would, I just paid 10 dollars for an 8800GTS 512 which would blow a G710 away.
i7 3770 (Vanilla "non K" CPU configured to use the maximum 4 extra "turbo bins" allowed for "non K" Ivy Bridge CPUs).
Gigabyte G1 Sniper 2 Z68 motherboard with no working voltage adjustment for Ivy Bridge CPUs, otherwise I would have upgraded to an i7 3770K.
2*4GB DDR3 2133 CL 9-10-10-26 1T.
Asus DCII Geforce GTX 780 ti.
Windows 7 Ultimate with some bloat + MSI Afterburner with OSD and all monitoring modules running.
All power saving options such as all C-states and the like are active.
Windows power scheme is set to "Balanced".
Nvidia driver 391.35.
Result.
1920*1080 - No AA - VeryHigh - DX10 - 32bit.
Avarage 89.385 FPS.
Max 115.17 FPS.
Min 59.96 FPS.
The (non K) i7 3770 is not as fast as the latest generations of i7 CPUs but it holds up pretty well considering it's more than 6 years old.
A faster video card than the 5 year old GTX 780 ti would perhaps add a few FPS but I think this benchmark is mostly CPU limited at 1080p with this system.
I did cut the screenshot a bit as I run a 4k desktop.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
CarlHopkinsUK wrote:Damm I can only just fit everything on the screen at 1280x1024 (yes I only have a 19" monitor). […] Show full quote
Damm I can only just fit everything on the screen at 1280x1024 (yes I only have a 19" monitor).
Bench_GB41mQ8400.JPG
Result from my "main" rig, did better than expected for a C2Q with a frankly rubbish GT710.
However seriously debating changing the GPU out for something older and "downgrading" to WinXP 64 on this, even though there is XP drivers for the GT710 I got issues with XP when I tried a dual boot setup before.
I would, I just paid 10 dollars for an 8800GTS 512 which would blow a G710 away.
Agreed! I have just sourced a GTX650 for £30, and sold the GT710 on for the same - so hopefully the change will be worth it! Il re-bench when it arrives...
Was messing with XP64 today, and as I think someone else mentioned previously im not seeing any benefit over W10.
This is the oldest platform I can safely test without fear of bad caps:
This system is still unable to play Youtube 720p60 without GPU acceleration, heh. It's also sad a 2017 CPU is barely 2x better than a 2004 microarchitecture in IPC.