6950 - Was I expecting way too much OR do I have a problem??

kingy666 · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:09

It may help us and you if you can download heaven 2.5 benchmark program and run it. then post your score after running it. Just for your reference i get a score of around 1030 but that is on a 6950 with the extra unlocked shaders and i have a I7 920 overclocked to 3.8 so my score will be a bit higher than you will get (i also have 1920 x 1080 which will make a difference).

here is a link to the download

http://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/

ElliottJames · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:09

Im getting 60fps @ High with 2560x1440 res with a 6950 2GB so you must have an issue.

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:10

Freddie1980 said:
It sounds like your clocks rates aren't being rampped up from their idle state. If you download MSI afterburner it has an overlay which you can use and see the clockrates whilst playing your games that will tell you if there ramping up or not.

OK I'll try MSI Afterburner too

What if they aren't :S

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:12

kingy666 said:
It may help us and you if you can download heaven 2.5 benchmark program and run it. then post your score after running it. Just for your reference i get a score of around 1030 but that is on a 6950 with the extra unlocked shaders and i have a I7 920 overclocked to 3.8 so my score will be a bit higher than you will get (i also have 1920 x 1080 which will make a difference).

here is a link to the download

http://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/

Downloading now, will come back with a score ASAP

flinco · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:13

With a Q6600 you will be CPU limited, a fair amount in 64 player BF3. So in the busy scenes with lots of players running about and lots of buildings getting blown up, you'll be at the same fps as the 4870, perhaps a lil more.

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:15

flinco said:
With a Q6600 you will be CPU limited, a fair amount in 64 player BF3. So in the busy scenes with lots of players running about and lots of buildings getting blown up, you'll be at the same fps as the 4870, perhaps a lil more.

Just what I didn't want to hear, only tried on servers with 2-5 people so far while messing about with settings!!

decto · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:21

Why are you unhappy with 60fps? you are probably at the limit of the Q6600 but BF3 plays very well at that fps and you can crank up the details too.

What were you expecting?

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kingy666 · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:21

Here are my results from heaven using the defaultsettings at 1680 x 1050 resolution. I am not sure how much your "old cpu" will effect the results.

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:29

decto said:
Why are you unhappy with 60fps? you are probably at the limit of the Q6600 but BF3 plays very well at that fps and you can crank up the details too.

What were you expecting?

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On high i'm not unhappy with that at all, its just the fact that its stuck on all of them like that even with vsync off, probably more so with other games don't seem any better either

LtMatt · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:32

shanestatham said:
I run BF3 on Ultra at a steady 70fps easily. Ive got the 6950 Toxic.

Chec the Engine Control Centre....it used to be called the Catalyst Control Centre hence the CCC....people should call it the ECC now i guess. (to do this righ click desktop and it will be your first option on the list.

On the left hand side there is a tab called "Gaming"...click it.

This will open a list of options where you can turn off vsync and AA etc....just have a look see what settings these are on. vSYNC will make you have constant 60fps.

Wow your single 6950 runs the game faster than my 6970 crossfire.

decto · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:35

ElusiveWarrior said:
On high i'm not unhappy with that at all, its just the fact that its stuck on all of them like that even with vsync off, probably more so with other games don't seem any better either

Well if you're at 60fps on high it's probably the CPU / platform especially in BF3. My Q6600 struggled to get above 42fps average in the big multiplayer maps even @ 3.6Ghz

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shanestatham · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:42

LtMatt said:
Wow your single 6950 runs the game faster than my 6970 crossfire.

Thats because my 6950 is overclocked, unlocked and xfire sucks...well from what ive seen and heard anyways.

**didnt wish for that to come across as sh**y as it shounds

JaffAWood · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:55

ElusiveWarrior said:
I have tried putting it up, tried med & high too, no diff.

It was on LOW to start because thats all i could get out of 4870.

Hi,

Same thing happend to me. No matter what RES/Settings/Windowed or FS all i could get was 30-40 fps. Turns out the CPU (and probably mobo) was bottlenecking the card(s).

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:04

kingy666 said:
Here are my results from heaven using the defaultsettings at 1680 x 1050 resolution. I am not sure how much your "old cpu" will effect the results.

My results are Below

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:06

decto said:
Well if you're at 60fps on high it's probably the CPU / platform especially in BF3. My Q6600 struggled to get above 42fps average in the big multiplayer maps even @ 3.6Ghz

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I probably should be happy with the bf3 fps at 50-60 then

Like I say, its just the other games, Black ops isn't overly demanding and still not higher

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:07

JaffAWood said:
Hi,

Same thing happend to me. No matter what RES/Settings/Windowed or FS all i could get was 30-40 fps. Turns out the CPU (and probably mobo) was bottlenecking the card(s).

I'm hoping to upgrade CPU and RAM next year. I didn't realise that CPU would make such an impact on graphics

kingy666 · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:09

Well those results look fine to me. I think it may be, as others have said, your Q6600 is not up to the job anymore. Can you overclock it any further?

Surveyor · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:16

ElusiveWarrior said:
My results are Below

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If you run the benchmark with 4xAA then you can compare it to the results here:

***Official Unigine Heaven 2.5 Benchmark Scores***

ElusiveWarrior · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:25

kingy666 said:
Well those results look fine to me. I think it may be, as others have said, your Q6600 is not up to the job anymore. Can you overclock it any further?

But surely the CPU would have affected the benchmark results?

I'm lost with this. Really am.

muppet · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:40

try and o/clock that cpu a tad more as well if you can . that may help a little