bottleneck?

[belial8321]

Are there any bottlenecks in my system; What could be causing an overall reduced performance with this setup?

Phenom II X6 1055T @ 4.2ghz
HIS Radeon 6970 2GB (core and mem overclocked)
Crucial XMS3 4GB 1600Mhz Dual Channel
Asus Crosshair III Formula 790FX
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB SATA-II

 

[belial8321]

I would be tempted to say the hdd r/w speeds let down everything else, though im not sure if thats a serious performance stopper with this rig

 

[MoodyB]

The hard drive would only really affect loading times, or games that stream constantly from it like GTA 4, Arma II, but even then it wouldn't be a noticeable difference.

What makes you think you're low on performance ?

 

[belial8321]

well im noticing in some tessmark benchmarks, things like gtx 460s + 480s seem to out do my score

 

[TropicLightning]

Ati has much improved tess performance over 5800 's but it is still not quite as good as NVidia. Maybe with upcoming drivers...

Nothing wrong with your system.

 

[MoodyB]

How does tessmark matter ? The Nvidia cards will be quicker as they are slightly better at Tessellation.

And Tessmark is OpenGL based, which afaik Nvidia have always been stonger in performance wise, I think.

What about in things that actually matter, like games ?

 

[belial8321]

Erm well i think medieval total war 2 - sometimes lags on max graphics in cut scenes, no idea why, its like 5 years old

 

[6644kp]

Erm well i think medieval total war 2 - sometimes lags on max graphics in cut scenes, no idea why, its like 5 years old

Medieval 2 uses only 1 core so the other 5 don't do anything. Try out Napoleon which uses 4 cores it will run much better.