Wow, I havn't been here in a while. If I remember correctly my score is in my signature.

Sure.

Well, to start I turned the slider in the driver settings all the way down to performance, no aa, no af or anything.

The video card is slightly overclocked to 480/890. I'm not pushing it to the max but it's enough to get imrpoved performance without putting my video card into too much danger.

I also did some tweaks a while back that where posted in the forum at guru3d.com. I don't remember how to find them though. But what they did was make it so my computer uses RAM instead of writing page files to the hard drive. It just involved editing some registry entries.

Other than that I havn't really tweaked anything else. I must have gotten lucky and got everything setup good from the start. I could probably tweak the RAM timing a bit but I'm not going to bother with it. It's just some good hardware.

The ram is running in dual channel which makes a dramatic difference. I don't remember seeing if you posted your system specs or not but dual channel ram is very helpful. Your motherboard needs to support it though. Like I said I don't know what your system is.

Good luck!

Oh, I didn't notice it. It's slightly better than mine so you should be getting a better score.

Is your RAM 2 seperate chips? I'm guessing it is.

To run in dual channel the ram has to be in the correct slots. Either put both chips in the blue slots or both chips in the black slots. Not one in blue and one in black.
That should run it in dual channel. It mentions this somewhere in the manual too.

I'm not familiar with ATI cards so I can't comment much on that. That IS one of their most newest ones isn't it? If so then it's definatly better than my Nividia card. The nvidia FX cards choke on the dx9 test. Actually I'm going to end up having to get a new video card once dx9 games become more widly used.  It's not exactly Nvidia's fault though, ATI and Nvidia both made their own gpu structure but ATI finished first.. so Microsoft created dx9 around the newer ATI cards.  Both cards process dx9 information differently but because of this the nvidia fx cards have to do alot of different things to make the code compatible with their cards. That slows the cards down for dx9 stuff. It really sucks.

Well, good luck.  I can't really give much help since I hardly know what I'm doing. hehe. I just went through websites that had system tweaks and used the tweaks that sounded good. Guru3d.com and anandtech.com are good places to look at.

OK, downloaded the program great, without buying it...

After install I viewed the demo...with great results, but when I go to run the tests it will play the wings of fury video with frames between 120-250, but when it goes into the next set of videos/whatever it drops down to 3-10FPS.....

Do I have to purchase this program to get true realistic results? Or am I doing somethign wrong?

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Are you sure, because running the demo everything runs great while also playing the audio portion of it...???

It just doesn't make sense that one way would work, and the other wouldn't...

Ok I wasn't sure, just wanted to be sure that i was getting an accurate reading...

here are mine. i reccomend using a program called Enditall search on google for it and that will give you best results


i was kinda expecting more from my system though and my cpu reads at 2026 mhz when it should be more something like 2250. anyone got any ideas on that

much appreciated

daz