ITS ALIVE!!!!!!! 4850 Quad Crossfire!!!!

[Robert-The-Rambler]

System Specifications:

HP LP3065 30" Monitor with 2560 * 1600 resolution

Apevia Warlock 1100 watt power supply (4 30 amp 12v rails)

Antec 900 gaming case: It has a huge 200mm fan that blows upward out of the case (After some gaming 24 degrees Celcius System Temp and 29 degree CPU)

MSI K9A2 Platinum: AMD 790FX Chipset with 4 PCI Express Slots for graphics cards

AMD X2 5600 watercooled with a Nautilus 500 external watercooling unit

4 Radeon 4850s in quad crossfire

Soundblaster X-Fi

8 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM (Only 4 active due to 32 bit operating system)

2 500 gig Seagate SATA 2 Hard Drives

Liteon BLU-RAY Drive

2 ASUS DVD ROMS



Here are the initial numbers at 2560 * 1600 with 4x FSAA max detail. As always I start with Fear. (It has an easy built in benchmark)

FPS

Minimum 13

Average 98

Max 373

FPS Distribution

1% below 25 FPS

1% between 25 and 40 FPS

98% above 40 FPS

Any other suggestions for game benchmarks that might be built in?

[BaneNWN]

wheres this benchmark in the programs i want to run it myself

[BaneNWN]

nevermind i found it ur system deffenitly whipes the floor with mine even at your high res compared to my 1680x1050.I ran the exact same detail as you accept my lower res

My numbers are consistant all the way acrossed the board maximun fos 79 minimum 73

0% below 25 fps
0% 25-40 fps
100% above 40 FPS ill take it

[Robert-The-Rambler]

nevermind i found it ur system deffenitly whipes the floor with mine even at your high res compared to my 1680x1050.I ran the exact same detail as you accept my lower res

My numbers are consistant all the way acrossed the board maximun fos 79 minimum 73

0% below 25 fps
0% 25-40 fps
100% above 40 FPS ill take it

I like the 100%. That is the important part.

Well, I've been futzing around with FSAA with these 4 cards and all I can say is that it is the best I've ever seen performance wise. I'm currently running the Catalyst 8.6 drivers and even without the hotfix I'm hearing about I'm getting great numbers with filters in Unreal 3 engine games. I've had FRAPS running with anything I run and I'm finding that as long as I keep my FPS around 30 I am getting really enjoyable gameplay. The 4850 series really keeps its FPS closer to its average FPS much better than the 3870 series. I was just stretching my legs with Turok, an Unreal 3 engine game and my max setting for smooth playability seems to be 2560 * 1600 with 16X FSAA with added wide tent filtering for a total of 24X FSAA. I just know I should be able to go to full 32x with the actual drivers that officially support these cards in the coming weeks. I have not enabled adaptive AA just yet but in my experience that feature reduces performance a bit more. Anyhow it looks like despite having 512 megs of RAM I will have very little problem with any frame buffer limitation with filters at 2560 * 1600. Everything I would like to run will probably be getting at least 8X FSAA. I'm hoping to have a 3 ghz or above quad core in the future but really I'm not sure what I'm going to get in most applications.

[BaneNWN]

somethings weird here i run fraps in game and ive pushed close to 400 fps at times and for the most part i stay in the mid to low 100's i got a weird feeling the test itself is capped at 80 fps for some reason.u would think i woulda had atleast 200 fps high in the bench if im hitting higher then that ingame.somethings weird here.whats really got me believing its capped in the benchmark for me is the fact that i turn all detail to low at 640x480 res and i get the same exact numbers as 1680x1050 with everything set to maximum this bench isnt making a whole lot of sense to me

[BaneNWN]

Ok i figured out why my run was so weird in the fear benchmark i had vsync enabled well that only maxes out around your monitor refresh rate.ok heres my numbers RTR 1600x1200 everything set to max Minimum FPS 63 average FPS 141 maximum FPS 383.I really want to see what it will do at 2560x1600 res.Ive been wanting a better monitor for a while now so maybe that will be my last purchase for my rig for a while.hope this shows up http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f59/BaneNWN/?action=view&current=FEAR2008-07-0902-14-38-76.jpg