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Bottleneck or Benchmark?

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I wanted to play a couple of new games that are coming on (F1 2010, FFXIV) but my ageing PC couldn't really cope. I decided to stump up some money for a new GFX card as thats where I thought the biggest gain would come in.

I got the PoV GTX465 which is now a GTX470, and ran the FFXIV benchmark on low, and got 2300 marks (which is rubbish). I now know that this benchmark isn't very good, can anyone recommend a good free benchmark that I can test the system with so I can see whethere I'm getting decent results for my setup or not.

My system is:
Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 @ 2.9 Ghz
4GB RAM
GTX470
Vista 64 bit
Gigabyte 965 based board with a pcie v1 x16 slot
 
discobiscuits said:
Hey, just reading this I think there might be something up with your CPU as I also have an e6300 and stock is 2.8ghz not 1.8ghz? Unless I'm missing something that's only a 100mhz OC your running? Mines does 3.2ghz easily with 305fsb. Can run that benchmark with my 460 gfx later and let you know
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The E6300 was one of the first core 2 duos released (july 27 2006) at 1.8ghz, I am running an overclock of 1.1ghz. I would be interested to compare your benchmark results with mine.

Thanks
 
I will check all the settings when I get in from work but I ran driver sweeper, running the 258 drivers (off the nvidia website) and MSI Afterburner recorded 84 degrees and 99% GPU usage.
 
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Just got 1070 on the unigine benchmark, is that any better for the gtx470?

Edit: Scored 810 with 32FPS on 1680x1050 with tesselation at extreme.
 
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Updated my drivers and now get 2900 on the FF benchmark which is a bit better, hopefully the game will now be playable on my rig.
 
What should I be getting on the heaven benchmark at 1680x1050 16af 4aa and extreme tesselation?
 
Right - Final Benchies:

FFXIV - 2927, my slowdown occurs when the task manager shows 100% cpu usage. Clearly the bottleneck here is processor related.

unigine heaven - 32.2fps and 860 points. 1680x1050 16AF 8AA tesselation normal. I have no idea on this one.
 
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