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Will a processor by itself make a difference in video game resolution?
Darklight writes:
this is to Anssi Saari have you disabled any of your peripherals Ie storage hard drives. No. Second what is your psu. Corsair 520HX. I know, it's a little borderline for my system but should be fine at least as long as I don't overclock both CPU and GPU at the same time. Third what are your settings for you nvidia gpu. The video card is a Gigabyte GV-N670OC-2GD, so Base clock: 980 MHz and Boost clock: 1058 MHz. Memory clock is normal 6008 MHz. Somewhat factory overclocked since nominal clocks for a GTX670 are 915/980 MHz. |
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Will a processor by itself make a difference in video game resolution?
Paul writes:
It helps to understand what the processor is being wasted on. Try "PhysX Medium - GPU". Well, unfortunately I get frame rate drops seemingly at random even in areas where there are no obvious PhysX effects in play. I've found one place especially where frame rate drops typically to 50 fps but there's nothing obviously heavy on screen there. I tried lowering PhysX but as expected, no change. Also no change from lowering various video options except for resolution. Even then, I can't do 60 fps even at 1280x800. I suppose it's upgrade time. I wonder how well Windows 7 copes when motherboard is changed? My old motherboard is Asus P5Q Deluxe, P45/ICH10R chipset going to Z77 on the Asrock Z77 Extreme4... At least SATA should be all AHCI now so hopefully booting works. I'll have look into this a little. The game looks like a good way to promote the sale of new hardware. I agree, the fluid effects like flowing water in streams are very cool. I can't remember ever seeing such realistically flowing water in a game. Which is kind of weird since Borderlands has a hand drawn cartoony look about it in general. |
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Will a processor by itself make a difference in video game resolution?
On Nov 1, 8:55 am, Doc wrote:
I installed an Nvidia GTX 460 video card to boost the gaming experience. Looked far better than the 8600 GT I'd been using. Then I went from an E8400 Core2 Duo processor to a Q9550 Core2 Quad processor. I don't know if it's some placebo effect but it seems like the graphics is even better after installing the Quad processor. Is there any basis for this to be true? I.e. is there any reason for an already fairly stout video card running under one CPU to look better just because it's running under an even stronger CPU? Not sure stronger even applies now. I was looking over MSI MBs, Intel variants - and NOT one was equipped for other than running an Intel *Graphics Enabled* processor (in a socket 115x form factor). Coupled with the newest breed of dual Celerons, of that persuasion, they're running faster benches than powerhouse AMD X2s a few years ago. MSI's big deal, however, is solid-state capacitors on MB built for (ostensibly, not to) "military" specifications. Over on Gigabyte's offerings, however, similarly socketed for graphic- qualified only CPU mates, they've support for a likes of automatic switching between PCI-E (including CrossFire configs) and the MPU-GPU aspect of the processor. Take an instance of video encoding and that pair of PCI-E graphic boards priced at respectively $400 each, and it should be readily apparent they won't do one damn thing faster in the time the processor takes to finish. Play a game such as Halo, though, and the MB enters in the picture to switch to the CrossFire slots for whatever flavor suits the builder. To say in absolute terms (apart from program theory and predictive analysis code written for branch decisions on multi-cores) - you'll have to hit the gaming or hardware sites for CPU to GPU to both combined over similarly grouped matrices. Pretty pictures on graphs and such you know and love. Doesn't look like there's other than Gigabyte and MSI left these days -- although good to see MSI still in there, among newer brands and others (BIOSTAR comes to mind) -- still priced for reasonably to affordable means and entry builds;- ASUS I simply didn't mention because it perhaps was priced beyond limits on a construction emphasis (solid-state capacitors and advertised longer-life MBs) I was looking at. Nothing much more in there hardly above $75US. |
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