What is my bottle neck?

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:Yeah, I think the full turbo boost occurs if all but one core is disabled. The next best turbo boost happens when all but two cores are disabled, at least that's generally what I've heard.

Not totally true. Turbo boost 2.0 (sandy bridge/ivy bridge) has a maximum clock rate that it can reach regardless of the number of active cores so long as their is enough TDP headroom available. However the more cores are active the less TDP headroom tends to be available so it does tend to influence things.

Quote:Definitely stick with getting a dedicated GPU as an upgrade.

Agreed.

[Shonumi]

(04-10-2012, 06:44 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Not totally true. Turbo boost 2.0 (sandy bridge/ivy bridge) has a maximum clock rate that it can reach regardless of the number of active cores so long as their is enough TDP headroom available. However the more cores are active the less TDP headroom tends to be available so it does tend to influence things.

Cool, now I've a better handle on how turbo boost works. Thanks.

@comp, make sure you're testing Internal Resolution rather than Fullscreen Resolution in your graphics options. You should see a performance decrease as you get higher.

[comp666]

(04-10-2012, 07:47 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Cool, now I've a better handle on how turbo boost works. Thanks.

@comp, make sure you're testing Internal Resolution rather than Fullscreen Resolution in your graphics options. You should see a performance decrease as you get higher.

I'm running 5063 because its 5-10 fps faster than the newest revision. Internal resolution is the same as windowed resolution?

[Shonumi]

IR should match the windowed resolution if you set it to "Auto (Window Size)". But you can have a low IR and still set the Fullscreen Resolution to something high. Dolphin says in the Fullscreen Resolution description that changing those values has a negligible effect on performance. I'm not sure, but I think this is due to the fact that Dolphin scales the image with Fullscreen Resolution, whereas Internal Resolution changes the size of the actual rendered scenes and puts more strain on the GPU.

[NaturalViolence]

Yes.

Internal resolution: The resolution that the efb is rendered at.
Fullscreen/windowed resolution: The resolution that the efb is scaled to before drawing to screen space.

[comp666]

Just picked up a XFX AMD Radeon HD 6870 from Amazon. Let's see if it helps.

[comp666]

My gtx 560 arrived today (I ended up going with nvidia because of the larger gpgpu community). The new card boosted the FPS by about 5 fps. Now the fps averages about 53. I can also play the game at higher resolutions without losing frames.

Although it didn't get me to 60 fps like I had hoped, I think I'll still be keeping the card for the CUDA capabilities.

[AnyOldName3]

You have now reached the point where it is the CPU which is bottlenecking things.

By the way: You're now battlefield 3 ready if you want to go for pc games too.

[ssvegeta96]

i got 980 oc o 4.0 ghz and a 560 ti 8gb 1600 mhz ram.. although my mother board siad it oc clocked my ram but i dnt think my cpu supports more than 1333 idk but is my system bottle necked?? i play dolphin and it works pretty good

[NaturalViolence]

What is your question?