chizow 

 
Btw, what is your suggestion now for all the people with slow Core 2 and PhII systems with low FPS and low GPU% that you insisted were caused by a driver/GPU problem?

Robs03gts

chizow


Yep its clearly not as fast as you think it is

And neither is it slow as ***EDITED BY AB***claiming it to be.
 

chizow
and certainly not fast enough to eliminate any CPU bottlenecks as you've insisted numerous times. 

Nope, never claimed it would remove every single bottleneck. What I did say was unless your running an unusual low resolution without AA and AF you will never see the difference. However anyone with a half a brain will tell you that a Q9550@4.3ghz paired up with a Single GTX 480 while gaming at resolution of 1920X1200 with AA and AF isnt going to be bottlenecking anything.
 
Is the Corei7 faster? well yes it is and if your into encoding you will notice the difference right away. However the case isnt the same for gaming at high resolutions with AA and AF.
 
Any current Core 2 Quad at 3.8ghz or higher is plenty enough to properly feed a single GTX 480. You act as though the GTX 480 is some super duper power house nuclear video card that needs a core i7 clocked to 7ghz just to extract the mighty power of the fermi.
 
***EDITED BY AB***
 

chizow


I upgraded from a q9550 @ 4 ghz with 780i ftw to a i7 860 @ 3.9ghz  with p55 board and my framerates doubled with a 5970.

20mmrain

Same here I moved from a Q9550 @ 3.6 Ghz and I know have a i5 750 @ 4.25 Ghz My FPS also Almost doubled. I Eliminated Most Any Bottle Neck that was being caused by my 3 4890's At the time.


Lots in common with you too, former ATI users.  Maybe you should send them a PM and pick their brains a bit, see what they're doing right or maybe what you're doing wrong? 

"Simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors use data caches which are dynamically shared between threads. Depending on the processor workload, sharing the data cache may harm performance due to excessive cache conflicts. A way to overcome this problem is to physically partition the cache between threads. Unfortunately, partitioning the cache requires additional hardware and may lead to lower utilisation of the cache in certain workloads. It is therefore important to consider software mechanisms to implicitly partition the cache between threads by controlling the locations in the cache in which each thread can load data. This paper proposes standard program transformations for partitioning the shared data caches of SMT processors, if and only if there are conflicts between threads in the shared cache at runtime. We propose transformations based on dynamic tiling. The key idea is to use two tile sizes in the program, one for single-threaded execution mode and one suitable for multithreaded execution mode and switch between tile sizes at runtime. Our transformations combine dynamic tiling with either copying or storing arrays in block layout. The paper presents an implementation of these transformations along with runtime mechanisms for detecting cache contention between threads and react to it on-the-fly. Our experimental results show that for regular, perfect loop nests, these transformations provide substantial performance improvements."

squall-leonhart

Suggestion!

Try configuring the Dynamic Tiling setting (Nvidia Inspector 1.91 required)  to 2.

shiarua

DNOTTIS
2. If you have Afterburner installed - make sure you are disabling fan speed monitoring in settings/monitoring.  If you don't the Afterburner stutter feels a lot like the same stutter you get from using 4 cores.  You could be fighting both problems!

Question about this.

Does this mean the if you disable the fan monitoring that the User Defined fan profile will not work? ie have to set the fan speed manually?

Or is this just for updating the graph in Afterburner?

Robs03gts

chizow


I upgraded from a q9550 @ 4 ghz with 780i ftw to a i7 860 @ 3.9ghz  with p55 board and my framerates doubled with a 5970.

20mmrain

Same here I moved from a Q9550 @ 3.6 Ghz and I know have a i5 750 @ 4.25 Ghz My FPS also Almost doubled. I Eliminated Most Any Bottle Neck that was being caused by my 3 4890's At the time.


Lots in common with you too, former ATI users.  Maybe you should send them a PM and pick their brains a bit, see what they're doing right or maybe what you're doing wrong? 

***EDITED BY AB*** How many times did I say before that a CoreI7 setup had noticeable performance benefits over a core 2 quad for multi GPU platforms? How many times? Take a good look at the rigs that you just quoted from and tell me if any of them are single GPU setups.  Im not wasting anymore time with you as your more interested in twisting the facts all around any way that you can in order to fit your argument. Pathetic to say the least.


BTW I dont agree with the first guys comment with the HD 5970, im sure he had a nice FPS boost but he certainly didnt double in his frame rates from his previous platform. If anything at all it sounds like to me crossfire probably wasnt even working correctly or at all on his previous platform and that is a possibility considering that ATI had broken crossfire support for many games with the HD 5970 using the last few drivers. 
 

I think you are forgetting that I owned a HD 5970 myself paired along with my Q9550@4.3ghz and when comparing my setup to many of the guys over at xtremesystems.org with Core I7's clocked to 4ghz paired with a HD 5970 my frame rates were in spitting range of theirs, hardly any difference at all and most certainly not double the difference. lol.
 
Point is if my setup is enough for a HD 5970 then common sense will tell you that its more than enough for a GTX 480.

Louisville15

Fix didn't work for me :(

rafter1974
If you are getting stuttering with Afterburner you can just up the polling rate and it will get rid of it.

Unwinder

DNOTTIS

Yea, its much better.  I made the mistake of installing stupid Afterburner too... but forgot to disable fan monitoring.  Once I disabled that DX11 is smooth for me.  Funny though, I started the game with 4 cores.  Choppy as hell.  Then alt tabbed and disabled one... came back to very smooth gameplay....

 
Heh, looks like Santa refused to give you that present during our last meeting. :D Hope you can get it on the next XMas. :D Can you finally stop attacking my products? Not everything you are unable to understand is stupid.
 

DNOTTIS

Unwinder

DNOTTIS

Yea, its much better.  I made the mistake of installing stupid Afterburner too... but forgot to disable fan monitoring.  Once I disabled that DX11 is smooth for me.  Funny though, I started the game with 4 cores.  Choppy as hell.  Then alt tabbed and disabled one... came back to very smooth gameplay....

Heh, looks like Santa refused to give you that present during our last meeting. :D Hope you can get it on the next XMas. :D Can you finally stop attacking my products? Not everything you are unable to understand is stupid.

There is an issue with Afterburner and fan speed polling.  You are the one that posted how to fix it.  I'm relating that information to the people here having the same problem.  
Why don't you fix it already then????   Let me guess - you'll just blame Nvidia for it...  Surprise, surprise...

Unwinder
And finally, hardware site owner (who is also older than me) and rewiewer acting and talking like a street teenager is an epic fail.