Sapphire HD6950 1GB - Temperatures and Overclocking

[Skud]

Hmmm... so not much improvement over stock. So the CPU is limiting here.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

then its better not to overclock anymore with my current cpu?

 

[Skud]

Looks like so. In any case, you are getting smooth gameplay with default clocks. Why bother OCing?

 

[vickybat]

Crysis 2 dx11 + high texture pack & metro 2033 dx11 is the real test. Re5 won't stress a 6950 at all.
Playing re5 at 90+fps will cause screen tearing. So v-sync should be turned on in this case for smoother gameplay without screen tearing and overlapping of frames.

Jas do a crysis 2 dx 11 test buddy. Your cpu is not that much of a bottleneck because its still a fast quadcore although not in the league of i5 750 or 2400, there's not much difference in gaming.

And like rchi84 said, you might also need an additional 2gb of ram.

 

[rchi84]

Hi Jas. RE5 is just one game, and not the best indicator of your system's performance. Play a couple of other games and see what kind of performance you get. As it is, only a handful of games really need an OCed 6950.

Another factor that could be holding you back is your RAM, unless you already have 4GB and your sig hasn't been updated. 3 GB is bare minimum for comfortable gaming in windows 7. Another expense, I know

 

[skeletor]

that processor thought aroused

hmmmm

 

[rchi84]

^^ Hey don't blame the Athlon. Sheva does that to you ;P

 

[Terabyte]

Your cpu is not that much of a bottleneck because its still a fast quadcore although not in the league of i5 750 or 2400, there's not much difference in gaming.

I have seen Sandy Bridge processor review by anandtech and clearly Sandy Bridge processors do give noticeable performance boost in gaming compared to Phenoms and Athlons.

 

[vickybat]

^^ In cpu intensive titles like GTA 4 yes, but in gpu intensive games, a fast quad core (clock speed) like athlon 2 x4 is enough.

 

[asingh]

Well since everyone was benching on RE5 Dx10, decided to do the same. All attached are some GPU/CPU metrics.

End of the story...! Beat this..!

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CPU usage for all 4 cores is nice and low, and the GPU usage is quite high.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

very nice result asingh.
ok batman and rchi. next upgrade - ram.

due to some circumstances i cant download HUGE crysis 2 dx11 patch and all currently. when i download i will tell you. so please suggest something else.

and i am currently enjoying battlefield bad company 2 at highest settings. loving the game.
i can post its fps?
fps vary from scene to scene. so how?

what about black ops? any other game?

 

[asingh]

^^
Bench it on Crysis 2. There is a bench tool.

 

[rchi84]

Hi Jas. BBFC2 is a very difficult game to pin down for benchies, because the load varies hugely from scene to scene. You can pick a level and choose to run it for a minute or so and try to get FRAPS to benchmark. Make sure you don't have Afterburner running when you're playing BBFC2, because Punkbuster has some problems with AB and the game crashes as a result

Try Metro 2033 benchmark, although your RAM is most likely holding your system's performance down for the moment.

There's also the good old Crysis Benchmark, F1:2010, Stalker Call of Pripyat benchmark(doesn't need the game for it), AVP..

 

[rchi84]

Ok. For comparison's sake, here's my score with stock 6950 clocks:

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and here's my score with 6970 clocks

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[Jaskanwar Singh]

^those are at 720p?

 

[max_007]

Well since everyone was benching on RE5 Dx10, decided to do the same. All attached are some GPU/CPU metrics.

End of the story...! Beat this..!

Gr8 result asigh bro
I had a littile bit problem with my vx450 psu(actually it can't handheld 560 ti )....so just brought a tx650 v2...
now the result..
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call of duty black ops
2011-07-31 20:15:28 - BlackOps
Frames: 5663 - Time: 70434ms - Avg: 80.402 - Min: 51 - Max: 94

2011-07-31 20:19:36 - BlackOps
Frames: 11867 - Time: 140229ms - Avg: 84.626 - Min: 58 - Max: 94

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

^very nice. Post dirt3 also.

 

[Skud]

Nice result, max.

 

[max_007]

Thanks friendz

okie dirt3

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Crysis 2 DX11 High Quality textures

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2011-08-01 01:02:42 - Crysis2
Frames: 1847 - Time: 58033ms - Avg: 31.827 - Min: 26 - Max: 40

2011-08-01 01:03:51 - Crysis2
Frames: 2412 - Time: 68484ms - Avg: 35.220 - Min: 26 - Max: 47

2011-08-01 01:05:04 - Crysis2
Frames: 2878 - Time: 82930ms - Avg: 34.704 - Min: 29 - Max: 44

2011-08-01 01:06:33 - Crysis2
Frames: 2494 - Time: 68609ms - Avg: 36.351 - Min: 14 - Max: 47

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

is there any special settings of aa in dirt3?
Max gets option of qcsaa while i msaa?

And max which soft u used for fps? Fraps?