Is my CPU good enough without overclocking?

[Axxer]

1. Your CPU runs 400 MHz higher
2. Your screenshot isn't exactly in a very demanding area. Try running around on the starship in SMG1 or seeing starbit meteors fly onscreen on a 3 GHz sandy bridge and you'll know what I mean.

The FPS in this game will fall like crazy in those situations.

[rpglord]

(10-11-2012, 07:40 AM)Axxer Wrote: 1. Your CPU runs 400 MHz higher
2. Your screenshot isn't exactly in a very demanding area. Try running around on the starship in SMG1 or seeing starbit meteors fly onscreen on a 3 GHz sandy bridge and you'll know what I mean.

The FPS in this game will fall like crazy in those situations.

I dont have SMG do you know any demanding area in SMG2 I will test it right away-I didnt find any which lowers fps below 58.

[Axxer]

I don't have a complete save for SMG2, so I can't go find any areas for you to test.

How far are you into the game?

[rpglord]

(10-11-2012, 07:45 AM)Axxer Wrote: I don't have a complete save for SMG2, so I can't go find any areas for you to test.

How far are you into the game?

"Fluffy buff" galaxy

[Axxer]

(10-11-2012, 07:48 AM)rpglord Wrote:

(10-11-2012, 07:45 AM)Axxer Wrote: I don't have a complete save for SMG2, so I can't go find any areas for you to test.

How far are you into the game?

"Fluffy buff" galaxy

I don't really remember where that is. I'll find something for you to look at later.

[admin89]

Quote:As you can see it certanly goes below fullspeed in battles.

Some people really hate slowdown . So 3.8-4.0GHz should be able to run Xenoblade + LLE + High IR(depend on your GPU) fullspeed without slowdown and 4.4GHz should be perfect for SMG
I guess your cpu can run it full speed most of the times but not full speed all the time . If you want to test SMG , please test it on lava level
Btw , i get 25-36FPS with HLE and 19-29 FPS with LLE (Xenoblade PAL-25)

[AnyOldName3]

(10-11-2012, 07:40 AM)Axxer Wrote: 1. Your CPU runs 400 MHz higher
2. Your screenshot isn't exactly in a very demanding area. Try running around on the starship in SMG1 or seeing starbit meteors fly onscreen on a 3 GHz sandy bridge and you'll know what I mean.

The FPS in this game will fall like crazy in those situations.

His CPU is clocked 100MHz higher, not 400MHz. Also, I don't get a very big drop in speed with AA. As I generally find my CPU is the bottleneck in dolphin, I find I can change it in SMG on the fly with no discernible difference in speed. I'm fairly confident that rpglord will hit a GPU bottleneck with less AA than me as my GPU is more powerful.

[Axxer]

Ah, I thought you had listed your turbo clock rate like most people. My mistake.

[rpglord]

(10-11-2012, 09:39 AM)admin89 Wrote:

Quote:As you can see it certanly goes below fullspeed in battles.

Some people really hate slowdown . So 3.8-4.0GHz should be able to run Xenoblade + LLE + High IR(depend on your GPU) fullspeed without slowdown and 4.4GHz should be perfect for SMG
I guess your cpu can run it full speed most of the times but not full speed all the time . If you want to test SMG , please test it on lava level
Btw , i get 25-36FPS with HLE and 19-29 FPS with LLE (Xenoblade PAL-25)

How does high ir have anything to do with cpu speed ?
As you can see lowest I got with 1xIR is 29,which is 4 fps ABOVE fullspeed.
I am sure I would get 20 fps with 5ghz sandy bridge with other settings I tried because my gpu is bottlenecking.
Since you cpu is weaker then mine,these results you got seems to match mine.
I dont have SMG..did you mean SMG2 ? If yes,please provide exact name of the galaxy and I will download saves online and test it

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(10-11-2012, 09:40 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote:

(10-11-2012, 07:40 AM)Axxer Wrote: 1. Your CPU runs 400 MHz higher
2. Your screenshot isn't exactly in a very demanding area. Try running around on the starship in SMG1 or seeing starbit meteors fly onscreen on a 3 GHz sandy bridge and you'll know what I mean.

The FPS in this game will fall like crazy in those situations.

His CPU is clocked 100MHz higher, not 400MHz. Also, I don't get a very big drop in speed with AA. As I generally find my CPU is the bottleneck in dolphin, I find I can change it in SMG on the fly with no discernible difference in speed. I'm fairly confident that rpglord will hit a GPU bottleneck with less AA than me as my GPU is more powerful.

Unless SMG is much more demanding then SMG2,it doesnt make sense for you to get 30 fps when I get 70 fps.
Something is wrong somewhere...

[AnyOldName3]

What's wrong is what I said was wrong earlier: I get lower performance that I should, and you get higher performance than you should.