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Hi guys,

 

Just about scientific research ok? No one take it personal :)

 

I would like to compare our general performances to provide all with a decent comparison chart. I set the rules here, so it is fair for every one.

 

This test take about 10 minutes of your time and I would appreciate as much as responses possible.

 

RULES

 

We will use FRAPS Benchmark Feature. Start FRAPS and check this pic to set your hotkeys and the folder where saving data. Be sure to checkmark MinMaxAvg and Stop benchmark after 60 seconds

 

fraps.jpg

 

Then, let s start Arma and first of all set the Video Options - disregard the view distance here, we will set it later on the Online settings.

 

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Now let s get online to the ACE server, get the Admin rights and select TAKISTAN mission Sparta_ACERH_Tdomi_54g

 

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Once you are online and your game finally is ready and you just Spawned in Base, set your Settings

 

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Now, you are fully ready to start your benchmark

From the Spawn position, Start your benchmark and wander around the base for 60 seconds. During benchmark you will not see the FPS on the corner of your screen, when benchmark is done you will see your FPS again on the corner when you see that, you are done. You can get out the game and go collecting your data.

 

Go to the folder where you saved your benchmark and you ll find a excel spreadsheet with your result. Just copy and paste in your post here, with your system Info.

 

Thank you all for partecipating to this experiment :)

Edited by Batwing~SPARTA~
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My result:

 

Benchmark:

 

One difference (I used 1920x1080 for both Res and 3D as 1920x1200 was unavailable)

 

Frames 1766

Time (ms)60000

Min 26

Max 32

Avg 29.433

 

System:

Intel Core i7 930 @ OC to 4.09 Ghz

12 GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator RAM @1488 MHz

EVGA GTX470 x2 in SLi

 

Core Clock @ 750

Shader Clock @ 1500

Memory Clock @ 1674

 

nVidia GeForce 275.33 (latest)

 

 

 

My mission E08: Benchmark resulted with 18 fps

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Batwing - I recommend that you use a benchmark utility if you are trying to compare apples with apples. Please use the Single Player Scenario E08: Benchmark. It is a great built in benchmark utility just for test like these. In my video you will also see the results of EVGA Precision utility 2.0.3 which displays GPU temp, GPU load, GPU fan speed.

 

I FRAP-ped my entire test as well as the video and audio settings, The results are here:

 

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Test Result: AVG FPS 74

 

System:

Intel Core i7 920 OC to 4.28 Ghz

6 GB DDR3 1600 GSKILL F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ RAM @1590 MHz

EVGA GTX590 OC CORE=700 Mhz SHADERS=1350 Mhz MEMORY=3700 Mhz

nVidia GeForce 275.33 (latest)

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Ok, I benchmarked with the E08 Benchmark now:

 

AVG 26 FPS

 

Then I benchmarked with FRAPS for the first 60 seconds of E08 Benchmark and Fraps reports:

 

Frames: 1814

time: 60000

min: 18

max: 46

avg: 30.233

 

System:

i7 920 @ 3.7 Ghz

6 GB ddr3 RAM

ATI 6970 core 900 mem 1400

ATI cat 11.5

 

EDIT:

 

I decided to give a lil bit of love to my 6970, so I OCed a bit: 950 / 1450

 

E08 Benchmark:

Avg 32 FPS

 

FRAPS benchmark on the first 60 seconds of E08 Benchmark:

Frames: 2286

time: 60000

min: 18

max: 63

avg: 38.1

 

.... Hmmmmmmm ....

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E08 Benchmark:

Avg 23 FPS

 

FRAPS benchmark on the first 60 seconds of E08 Benchmark:

Frames: 2286

time: 60000

min: 11

max: 26

avg: 24.4

 

System:

Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz

4 GB ddr2 RAM

GTX 560 TI - core 900 mem 1800

Nvidia 270.51

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My result:

 

Benchmark:

 

One difference (I used 1920x1080 for both Res and 3D as 1920x1200 was unavailable)

 

Frames 1766

Time (ms)60000

Min 26

Max 32

Avg 29.433

 

System:

Intel Core i7 930 @ OC to 4.09 Ghz

12 GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator RAM @1488 MHz

EVGA GTX470 x2 in SLi

 

Core Clock @ 750

Shader Clock @ 1500

Memory Clock @ 1674

nVidia GeForce 275.33 (latest)

 

My mission E08: Benchmark resulted with 18 fps

 

After seeing some of the results here with lesser equipment, it occurred to me that I have a settings issue. Apparently my nVidia Control Panel 3D settings were all set to maximum and to override the game's settings. Most of the setting were far higher than the Very High settings in the game so I lowered the setting and selected "Application Control for as many of the options as possible. For those options that are not in the game, I selected on as the default (except for V Sync).

 

My NEW results:

 

Benchmark:

 

One difference (I used 1920x1080 for both Res and 3D as 1920x1200 was unavailable)

 

Frames 1988

Time (ms)60000

Min 28

Max 45

Avg 33.133

 

System:

Intel Core i7 930 @ OC to 4.09 Ghz

12 GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator RAM @1488 MHz

EVGA GTX470 x2 in SLi

 

Core Clock @ 750

Shader Clock @ 1500

Memory Clock @ 1674

nVidia GeForce 275.33 (latest)

 

My mission E08: Benchmark resulted with 26 fps.

 

As you can see, a performance increase resulted. Not a huge increase but substantial enough to make a small difference. Make sure your global settings are lowered and the specific application settings are set to Application Controlled or the Control Panel will override the game.

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Frames 975

Time (ms)60000

Min8

Max 28

Avg 16.217

 

System

Windows 7 64bit

Intel I7 950 (3.2Ghz)

12gb dd3 ram

EVGA ATI 5970

 

Something was obviously not right, so I uninstalled the drivers (using Hajimotos guide), used a sweeper to clean the registry, installed the latest driver and reran the test

 

Frames 2109

Time (ms)60000

Min9

Max 63

Avg 35.150

 

Thanks to Batwing for this benchmarking idea, it has helped fix a problem I didnt know I had. I may need to look into the minimum frames.

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Frames: 1932

Min: 17

Max: 45

Avg: 32

 

Arma2 Avg: 29

 

Specs:

 

Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

Intel i7 2600K @ 4.0GHz

EVGA GTX 560 Ti 1GB

8GB DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaw X @ 1300MHz

 

 

Hmmmm... I feel like my machine should be pushing out some better frames. Wonder what's bottle-necking me right now. :/

 

EDIT: Updated my GPU drivers to the latest, though the performance increase was minimal. I OC-ed my CPU to 4.5GHz and OC-ed my GPU slightly and my frames were barely affected.

 

Min: 21

Max: 54

Avg: 34

 

ArmA 2 Avg: 30

Edited by Rooster90
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System

 

Windows 7 Home Premium 64

Core2Quad q9550 2.83Ghz

8gb Ram

Msi Twinfrozr 2 Gtx560

Core Clock @ 935Mhz

Shader Clock @ 1870Mhz

Memory Clock @ 2162Mhz

nVidia GeForce 275.33 (latest)

 

 

E08 Benchmark 39Fps

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Wow Noob,

 

Those are amazing results considering your CPU, its speed and the Videocard which is not even the top line!

 

Are you testing at 1920*1200?

 

The old Core2Quad @ not even 3 Ghz is kicking ass of way newer systems clocked at stellar speed. I am not into Nvidia, are your speeds on videocard OCed or are standard?

 

What s your secret ? :) What do you smoke? :)

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No,my res is 1900x1080,so there's no wonder it is higher.

My videocard is overclocked by MSI,it can easily get to 1Ghz with acceptable temps,around 70c max load,but itll start drawing over 300w....so its not a good idea :X

Effective memory speed is over 4300Mhz...

 

Edit:

Cause of Batwings thrash talk about my faithful but old pos cpu...lol....i oc'd it...not that much tho...to 3.3Ghz,not a single fps increase.......

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Halli,unless u have some recipe's to hide from the rest of the world....you should get teamviewer im sure theres no one that would mind checking your ARMA installation out,Teamviewer is a remote access program that lets someone else control your pc.....at any moment you can stop it tho...so its not like that person can do anything you dont want,and it is as long as you both run the program.

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1680x1050.... average was 48 my specs are my signature if my monitors were high res this number would be mid thirties i would assume. In triple head the game won't even move with all the settings maxed out ;)

 

11.5 drivers

x-fire on

VD only on 2000

Edited by SkeleTele~SPARTA~
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