Advice Needed - Should I be expecting more from my system?

I've just noticed a BIOS update that came out at the end of August on the ASUS site which I do not have yet. Any idea if this might help? If so I will update this prior to benchmark stuff.

Sabertooth X58 BIOS 1402
Improve VT-d compatibility issue
 
Well that's good about the motherboard, what about the PSU? Could it make a difference if you have Dual / Single rail. I'm not very knowledgeable with PSUs so someone else might help you on that. Looking at benchmarks you should be seeing far more than that.
 

That rig in the video is similar to yours. Note he has overclocked both the CPU and the GPU. He also tweaked down the AA settings, I'm sure you noticed. Although you have 2 GPUs they don't share the VRAM so you still only have 1GB which isn't hard to exceed on BF3

Download MSI afterburner. It's a great software tool for OC'ing GPUs. You can set custom fan speed profiles and there is an OSD so you can show your FPS in game as well as GPU load, VRAM used, temps etc etc
 
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honosuseri said:
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Download MSI afterburner. It's a great software tool for OC'ing GPUs. You can set custom fan speed profiles and there is an OSD so you can show your FPS in game as well as GPU load, VRAM used, temps etc etc
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Cool, will do mate thanks. Will post results of benchmarking and overclocking here asap. Fingers crossed.
 
Vram shouldn't be too much of a handicap.
My old 5870 1Gb (which is about on par with a 560ti) happily handled BF3 on ultra / no MSAA / 1080p and kept it mostly in the mid-late 50's fps.

One thing that really helped with this was capping fps to 59 (not 60) using either console command in BF3 or simply using the BF3 settings editor

I think there may be more at play here though.
 
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Max payne 3 was interesting in the settings menu. As it would show how much VRAM was needed for the settings selected. My 460 is heavily OC'd and is a 1GB model but it's the MSAA etc which was gobbling up the VRAM. I couldn't hope to max the settings as it would kindly say "insufficient VRAM".

I posted that video to give the OP some in game settings to try and see how it compares. There are some BETA drivers newly available which I have yet to try out.
 
Hi again :)

Just completed a benchmark using Heaven DX11 Benchmark 3.0 - thanks dunn2010 that is a great little tool!

Here are the results for your interpretation:

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I'm no expert obviously but that range of FPS is a bit odd isn't it? :confused:

Also, is it only picking up one of the two graphics cards here?

Any help/advice is much appreciated.
 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5kFR9dasqQ

Your settings are too high, I'm not surprised to see such a low minimum FPS. Change the settings to match what was used in the video above re-run and compare the results.

I'm pretty sure 3dmark does a comparison with other similar setups at the end of its test.......I could be wrong I've not used it in ages.

Did you try running BF3 with the settings used in the video of my other post?

EDIT

I was obviously refering to post #28, I didn't see the second benchmark run.
 
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Regarding bf3, it benefits a good bit with an overclock on the gpu's. Prior to the spec in sig i ran an i7 920 at 4.2ghz with oc'd gtx 470's, (pretty similair to 560 ti's). I could run the game on ultra at 1920x1200, no msaa as it got close to vram limit with msaa applied.
 
honosuseri said:
Did you try running BF3 with the settings used in the video of my other post?
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Yes thanks! I did have a tinker with the settings and could definitely notice a bit of improvement. The same cannot be said for Arma 2 though :(

I think I will give overclocking a try and see how much (if any) difference that makes.

Can anyone recommend a decent overclocking program - and preferably idiot proof in this case :D

Also, any guides that take me through it step by step would be very helpful (I am about to go through Google now in the meantime) so I don't destroy everything.
 
setter said:
I found this to be a good guide for overclocking my i7 920.

http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz

The guide has been updated to cover some of the later 900 series bloomfield cpu's, it was based on the settings for an asus p6t deluxe mobo that i had, but the bios layout on the sabretooth TUF board is virtually identical.
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Excellent thanks very much - I'll give that a read :)

Should I be considering OC'ing the graphics cards too?
 
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Regarding bf3, it benefits a good bit with an overclock on the gpu's. Prior to the spec in sig i ran an i7 920 at 4.2ghz with oc'd gtx 470's, (pretty similair to 560 ti's). I could run the game on ultra at 1920x1200, no msaa as it got close to vram limit with msaa applied.
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I run BF3 SP on Ultra @1920x1080 and it runs really sweet.
Core Clock: 880
Shader Clock: 1760
Memory Clock: 2100

Just played MoH Warfighter on High and that seems to be more intensive. Fans running at full and the heat was keeping my feet warm. :D
 
Im now using the spec in sig, though the gtx 670 has a very heavy oc on it, (1320mhz core, 7586mhz memory). Can run bf3 on ultra, 16x af, HBAO on x4 msaa and blur off. Averages 70fps, but i play with v-sync enabled.
 
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Im now using the spec in sig, though the gtx 670 has a very heavy oc on it, (1320mhz core, 7586mhz memory). Can run bf3 on ultra, 16x af, HBAO on x4 msaa and blur off. Averages 70fps, but i play with v-sync enabled.
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What do you use to show fps in game?
 
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