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Post by Grnkjr0 on Feb 3, 2011 21:49:54 GMT
Did Call of Pripyat not come as an Winrar file when you download, that you need to unzip before use? I am not sure if you can run the benchmark Jussi, but Sunny has a DX11 card - same card as me. When I open the benchmark it just looks like this and then I run it with the settings I choose. Sunny try to run Street Fighter in the same graphics settings as I used; 1920x1080 with C16xQAA and again without any AA. And the Street Fighter result in red sure says Windows 7 on my screen - don´t know why it´s in red though. Poul
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on Feb 3, 2011 21:51:04 GMT
I have the same video card as Poul except I only have one GTX-460 and he has two... I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does not work, because we may not have DX11 cards, Sunny. Jussi
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Post by Jussi on Feb 5, 2011 1:13:00 GMT
The Last Remnant - 17FPS - 2GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1366x768 Full screen Street Fighter IV - 31FPS - 2GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1366x768 Full screen Jussi PPS. I don't know why Street Fighter IV thinks I'm running it with the Intel GMA 3150 graphics?
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Post by Jussi on Feb 9, 2011 19:19:02 GMT
Street Fighter IV - 44FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 800x600 Full screen Street Fighter IV - 37FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1024x768 Full screen Street Fighter IV - 37FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1280x600 Full screen Street Fighter IV - 33FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1280x720 Full screen Street Fighter IV - 32FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1280x768 Full screen Street Fighter IV - 31FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1366x768 Full screen Jussi
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Post by Jussi on Feb 9, 2011 21:08:14 GMT
The Last Remnant - 32FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 800x600 Full screen The Last Remnant - 25FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1024x768 Full screen The Last Remnant - 19FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1280x600 Full screen The Last Remnant - 19FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1280x720 Full screen The Last Remnant - 19FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1280x768 Full screen The Last Remnant - 17FPS - 2.74GB RAM - NVIDIA® ION™ - 1366x768 Full screen Jussi
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Post by Jussi on Feb 18, 2011 1:12:15 GMT
I installed ""DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)" on my 1215N and it fixed some missing textures in NFS World and made it possible to run Level-R on this little machine. Remind me to redo the benchmarks... Jussi
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Post by Grnkjr0 on Feb 26, 2011 9:17:52 GMT
Hey all I was browsing through the net this morning and I read an article from a guy who had baked his graphics card - and brought it back to life. I have read such articles before, but I had nothing better to do this morning so I took my broken Palit GTX460 and decided that I would try to see if I could be as lucky. Now some of you might know that some time ago I bought at first one GTX460 - then a 2nd to run in SLI - both these were Palit´s ones. Then at one point my 2nd card died on me and I then bought a Gigabyte GTX460 SOC model to be able to run in SLI again. So I removed the heat sink and wiped off the thermal paste - removed the thermal pads I had under my Enzotech mosfets and cleaned the die using some Arcticlean - remove also any plastic if possible. Then I took some tin foil and rolled 4 small "balls" and placed my card on top of these and placed it on an oven tray wrapped in tin foil. Then preheated my oven to 190 Celsius and baked the card for 6-7 min. My oven is one of those where air is moved around inside, so it really bakes the card. If you have another oven then you might need to bake it a few more minutes. Anyways I let it cool for 20 min and then reapplied some thermal paste and installed it in my PC - and voila I have been running it for more than 30 min now and even tested it with Furmark - it´s as good as new Now you might not be as lucky, but nothing to lose from doing it if you have an old card that is dead. I guess I should have done this before I bought that Gigabyte SOC card - now I have 3 cards of the same model, but you can not run 3 of these at the same time - despite my motherboard has the PCI slots to do it Poul Edited: I do not have to tell anyone about the fumes when doing this right? Also do not have to give instructions on how to clean your oven after - right?
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Post by paul on Feb 26, 2011 11:59:33 GMT
Hey Poul, this is priceless stuff, I've baked my first graphic card (ATI Radeon 8500, 64 mb), but it is a long time ago. I'm not saying that I'm gonna bring her to life, but it's really helpfull if something like that happen again. Really helpfull info Maybe you noticed in my posts in actual PBRC comp. something about your high frame rates. After I read 70 % from this topic (20 pages - it token some time), I must say, that I have probably the weakest PC here. I'm running now in shift at 1280x1024 res. (on 24" full HD LCD), minimum details on car, bilinear texture filtering, low shadows and my framerates is like this - 2011-02-24 20:07:00 - SHIFT Frames: 17600 - Time: 525613ms - Avg: 33.485 - Min: 18 - Max: 41 - from race on Road America. My PC has Intel E6750 Dual Core 2.66 GHz, 3Gb DDR2 800 MHz RAM, Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512 Mb DDR3, Fortron 500W and Win XP Home. With my new monitor has my GPU 67 degrees of Celsius in win explorer mode and 130 degrees of Celius after 15-20 mins playing Shift, so every few minutes I need to cool her down. My PC need to be upgraded Can someone tell me please, if my CPU and power supply can handle 460GTX ? At this time I'm not sure of type my Gigabyte motherboard - it's 4 years old. Paul
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on Feb 26, 2011 12:28:08 GMT
Hey Paul, I think your CPU is fast enough but I don't believe ur PSU has enough wattage to run a GTX-460 video card, YOu need at least a 650W PSU, I also have the exact same video card as Poul the Palit GTX-460 running at 800 Mhz core clock and I'm using a Conair 850W PSU Hey Poul, this is priceless stuff, I've baked my first graphic card (ATI Radeon 8500, 64 mb), but it is a long time ago. I'm not saying that I'm gonna bring her to life, but it's really helpfull if something like that happen again. Really helpfull info Maybe you noticed in my posts in actual PBRC comp. something about your high frame rates. After I read 70 % from this topic (20 pages - it token some time), I must say, that I have probably the weakest PC here. I'm running now in shift at 1280x1024 res. (on 24" full HD LCD), minimum details on car, bilinear texture filtering, low shadows and my framerates is like this - 2011-02-24 20:07:00 - SHIFT Frames: 17600 - Time: 525613ms - Avg: 33.485 - Min: 18 - Max: 41 - from race on Road America. My PC has Intel E6750 Dual Core 2.66 GHz, 3Gb DDR2 800 MHz RAM, Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512 Mb DDR3, Fortron 500W and Win XP Home. With my new monitor has my GPU 67 degrees of Celsius in win explorer mode and 130 degrees of Celius after 15-20 mins playing Shift, so every few minutes I need to cool her down. My PC need to be upgraded Can someone tell me please, if my CPU and power supply can handle 460GTX ? At this time I'm not sure of type my Gigabyte motherboard - it's 4 years old. Paul
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Post by Grnkjr0 on Feb 26, 2011 12:29:07 GMT
Hey Paul
Yes you can upgrade to a GTX460 without problems. I will get back in an hour or so and tell a bit more about this.
Poul
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Post by paul on Feb 26, 2011 12:48:29 GMT
Thanks very much for this info, Sunny and Poul ! I've checked some good graphic cards before two days and I've seen good resumes on Radeon HD 6950/70, which is not so expensive than I thought (around 350 USD, most of the 2Gb GPU's are around 800 USD), but this is out of limits of my PSU and CPU as well. To be honest, I don't have much money to upgrade, but I'll be glad, if the upgrade could handle games in next three or four years without problems. From this reason I can spend majority from my saved money. Paul
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on Feb 26, 2011 12:57:54 GMT
It also depends on how many hard drives you have and how many CDROM's everything requires power, When I bought my card the spec said I needed at least 150W just for the video card... A computer will do some weird chit when you don't have enough power to run all the peripherals..... Poul will come back with that exact spec for you to make your choice.... Thanks very much for this info, Sunny and Poul ! I've checked some good graphic cards before two days and I've seen good resumes on Radeon HD 6950/70, which is not so expensive than I thought (around 350 USD, most of the 2Gb GPU's are around 800 USD), but this is out of limits of my PSU and CPU as well. To be honest, I don't have much money to upgrade, but I'll be glad, if the upgrade could handle games in next three or four years without problems. From this reason I can spend majority from my saved money. Paul
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Post by paul on Feb 26, 2011 13:32:02 GMT
At this time I have one CDROM and one HDD, two fans - one in front of the case and second on the side (I don't count the CPU, GPU and PSU fans). But yes, I think my PSU is weak for GPU like 460GTX.
Paul
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Post by Grnkjr0 on Feb 26, 2011 14:40:18 GMT
Hey You have enough power to run a GTX460 or a HD 6950 for sure, you will likely be using 400-450 watts in total power system usage - if you do not overclock anything. If you overclock CPU or GPU you can get into trouble. Without a doubt you need a new graphics card, even more so with Shift 2 coming soon. But perhaps you can wait until then to upgrade? It would be nice to know which cards performs the best in Shift 2 If you want to upgrade now then because the new GTX560 Ti is just out ($250), you should be able to find a GTX460 around $189.99 - but you sure will not go wrong buying a HD6950 ($270). It is not easy to tell whether a new CPU will help increase your current fps in Shift, but without a doubt a new graphics card will. Your current E6750 CPU will do the job just fine. Changing to a faster CPU or overclocking your current is not always going to give you a lot more fps - because this is game and resolution dependent. Some games show none or only little difference in fps, whether you run an "older" CPU or the new i7 2600K. The funny thing about Shift is that it loves high CPU clocks. Maybe it has to do with EA making these NFS titles for consoles and then just converting them into PC titles As you know now I have two GTX460 running in SLI, but if I did not overclock my CPU (Intel i7 920) to 4.2 GHz from it´s stock speed of 2.66 GHz, then there would be very little point in running SLI with Shift. I did a few laps around London River in time attack mode (lap time about 1.10) just to show how important CPU speed is when running SLI. Here you go: Resolution 1366x768 (lowest I could do without windowed on) Stock CPU speed of 2.66 GHZ: 2011-02-26 14:33:39 - SHIFT Frames: 9693 - Time: 79375ms - Avg: 122.117 - Min: 98 - Max: 158 CPU overclocked to 4.2 GHz: 2011-02-26 14:41:15 - SHIFT Frames: 14074 - Time: 78752ms - Avg: 178.713 - Min: 142 - Max: 238 Resolution 1920x1200: Stock CPU speed: 2011-02-26 14:19:05 - SHIFT Frames: 9884 - Time: 79520ms - Avg: 124.296 - Min: 99 - Max: 164 Overclocked to 4.2 GHz: 2011-02-26 14:10:28 - SHIFT Frames: 14601 - Time: 79536ms - Avg: 183.577 - Min: 144 - Max: 239 Now of course the big difference in fps from stock CPU speed to 4.2 GHz is because I run in SLI - but it just tells me that I NEED to run my CPU overclocked - not that I need more fps though Bottom line - yes you can upgrade to a newer graphics card and you will see a huge difference in fps. Poul
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Post by Grnkjr0 on Feb 26, 2011 14:46:37 GMT
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