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Water cooled 4870x2 and Crysis...

RoEy

RoEy

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Hi all,

I recently water cooled a Sapphire 4870x2 and the temps are superb. The thing is I've put Crysis on and it feels a bit sluggish. The settings are on all very high and 2 AA at 1920x1200.

Am I trying to push the card too much with these settings? I tend to have objects loading in the distance too. Just very disappointed and I know its optimised for Nvidia but that was 2 years ago.:rolleyes:

I've overcloked my core i7 920 to 3.4 but would taking cpu higher give me much better performance in Crysis?

Currently running Crysis on 1.2 Patch and I have Vista 64.

RoEy
 
yes I think perhaps you are expecting a little too much from it, in the past my 4870 x2/e8500 at 1680 vhigh no aa 'felt sluggish' to me.
 
My 4870X2 was fine even with 2 or maybe 4 AA turned on. Granted any higher and it ran too laggy. Mine isn't watercooled either though I will admit I'd have to turn the fan up considerably to keep the temps down on a game like this :D

Oh wait....ignore me, I mean on High not very high settings.:)
 
The X2 won't overclock too far either on air or water, most ATI high end parts are already pushed nearly to the maximum (bar the 4890 :D). What's your current FPS, since it should be able to manage 30-35 avg at least.
 
Happy said:
The X2 won't overclock too far either on air or water, most ATI high end parts are already pushed nearly to the maximum (bar the 4890 :D). What's your current FPS, since it should be able to manage 30-35 avg at least.
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What about with a Voltage tuner?
 
I benchmarked my crysis 1.2 @ 1680 x 1050 all settings very high vista 64 sp2 pc all stock and scored min 11 fps max 18.3.System in sig.Here is the benchmark all settings on high.Running GPU benchmark 1
Results will depend on current system settings
Press any key to continue . . .
Running...
================================================== ============
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 134.68s, Average FPS: 14.85
Min FPS: 11.32 at frame 149, Max FPS: 17.69 at frame 857
Average Tri/Sec: -5265448, Tri/Frame: -354588
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -2.59
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 130.50s, Average FPS: 15.33
Min FPS: 11.32 at frame 149, Max FPS: 18.39 at frame 870
Average Tri/Sec: -5232961, Tri/Frame: -341450
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -2.68
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 130.75s, Average FPS: 15.30
Min FPS: 11.32 at frame 149, Max FPS: 18.39 at frame 870
Average Tri/Sec: -5229432, Tri/Frame: -341885
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -2.68
================================================== ============
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 82.68s, Average FPS: 24.19
Min FPS: 18.33 at frame 141, Max FPS: 31.10 at frame 62
Average Tri/Sec: -16613543, Tri/Frame: -686837
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.33
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 78.67s, Average FPS: 25.42
Min FPS: 18.33 at frame 141, Max FPS: 33.51 at frame 62
Average Tri/Sec: -17437042, Tri/Frame: -685862
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.34
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 78.62s, Average FPS: 25.44
Min FPS: 18.33 at frame 141, Max FPS: 33.51 at frame 62
Average Tri/Sec: -17428678, Tri/Frame: -685118
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.34
Press any key to continue . . . Thats with all settings set to high.
 
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RoEy,

I've got my 4870X2 on water. As Happy says overclocking it won't do much good. I have tried this myself. But I can play Crysis fine and I have it on high settings with 1920x1200 and no AA. FPS goes between 25-55.

I will say when I got this under water for the 1st time, I had problems and it was due to the card overheating cos I didnt connect the block properly. So I would probably check the card and the block are making good contact. :D

If you want proof of it working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpxuZuqnk6Q

quality of the video isnt the best but it helps :D
 
CK61938 said:
RoEy,

I've got my 4870X2 on water. As Happy says overclocking it won't do much good. I have tried this myself. But I can play Crysis fine and I have it on high settings with 1920x1200 and no AA. FPS goes between 25-55.

I will say when I got this under water for the 1st time, I had problems and it was due to the card overheating cos I didnt connect the block properly. So I would probably check the card and the block are making good contact. :D

If you want proof of it working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpxuZuqnk6Q

quality of the video isnt the best but it helps :D
Click to expand...

Temps oh the card are brilliant mate. No higher than 40 when on Crysis and thats with 920 @ 3.4 in loop.

Ok I'll just keep it to high settings and 1920x1200.

Can anyone name some games worth playing then? Played Cod 4 and 5 but want to get my teeth into something else as I need to get off Counter Strike for a bit!:D

Thanks everyone,

RoEy
 
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