Hi,
My home office PC was showing a good number of sparklies so I replaced the HD3450 with a HD6670 which has cured the issue.
Now I thought the HD6670 would be sufficient for a little light gaming, Portal, Half Life 2 even L4D. This seems not to be the case.
L4D isn't too bad in confined spaces but Portal and Half Life 2 are very jerky, the frame rate often bombs even with the Resolution set to 1440 x 900 and medium textures etc. (1920 x 1200 native).
The 6670 was approx £60 for OCUK, I'd have though it would easily run a game from several years ago at such a low resolution.
This is the card
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-258-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1983
Rest of system
E4300 @ 3Ghz
Gigabyte P31-DS3P
4GB OCZ DDR 800 (gold spreaders)
64GB Crucial M4 SSD - Boot
500GB WD Black - Storage + Steam folder
CPUz confirms the CPU is clocking to 3Ghz under load (2Ghz at idle) approx 70% usage in game across both cores
GPUz confirms HD6670 installed in PCI-E 16 slot @ x16
Fresh install of Windows 7 64bit a couple of months back with only office 2007 and Steam installed.
Latest drivers for mobo and GPU.
My soon to be replaced gaming PC with Q6600, 8GB, GTX280 cuts through like butter @ either 1080 or 19x12 but for some reason this HD6670 doesn't cut it. I had hoped to use the 6670 for some in-house multiplayer but wanted a low wattage card as the PC is on 16hrs a day.
Am I expecting too much of the card .... 480 stream processors seems a fair amount!
Any suggestions welcome
Cheers
AD
My home office PC was showing a good number of sparklies so I replaced the HD3450 with a HD6670 which has cured the issue.
Now I thought the HD6670 would be sufficient for a little light gaming, Portal, Half Life 2 even L4D. This seems not to be the case.
L4D isn't too bad in confined spaces but Portal and Half Life 2 are very jerky, the frame rate often bombs even with the Resolution set to 1440 x 900 and medium textures etc. (1920 x 1200 native).
The 6670 was approx £60 for OCUK, I'd have though it would easily run a game from several years ago at such a low resolution.
This is the card
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-258-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1983
Rest of system
E4300 @ 3Ghz
Gigabyte P31-DS3P
4GB OCZ DDR 800 (gold spreaders)
64GB Crucial M4 SSD - Boot
500GB WD Black - Storage + Steam folder
CPUz confirms the CPU is clocking to 3Ghz under load (2Ghz at idle) approx 70% usage in game across both cores
GPUz confirms HD6670 installed in PCI-E 16 slot @ x16
Fresh install of Windows 7 64bit a couple of months back with only office 2007 and Steam installed.
Latest drivers for mobo and GPU.
My soon to be replaced gaming PC with Q6600, 8GB, GTX280 cuts through like butter @ either 1080 or 19x12 but for some reason this HD6670 doesn't cut it. I had hoped to use the 6670 for some in-house multiplayer but wanted a low wattage card as the PC is on 16hrs a day.
Am I expecting too much of the card .... 480 stream processors seems a fair amount!
Any suggestions welcome
Cheers
AD
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