[Misc] Update on the performance issues...
Aug. 9th, 2011 02:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormeriderSo one of the things that we found out about my system, thanks to Nonny's research and her comparing benchmarks (both mine vs. hers and mine vs. stated specs), is that I have this card in it:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261062
The "E-Green" model is meant for low power consumption systems, not gaming/high performance systems. It's underclocked by default, which is why Nonny's 9800GTX was blowing me out of the water on GPU score. This displeases me greatly; when I was configuring my system on http://ibuypower.com I was told that it would be a "major brand" card. I've never heard of Palit before, and I certainly wasn't aware that I was getting an underclocked card for my gaming model rig. I'll be contacting IBuyPower to see if I can get something out of them... hopefully an apology at the very least.
That said, if there's any one component in my system that I would have to pick to underperform, it'd be the GPU. It's the easiest component to replace and it's also the component that I replace most regularly in the regular course of upgrades anyways.
After spending some time with VTune, I got it properly clocked back up and adjusted to this score:
http://bit.ly/oY3cTr
That's a lot more reasonable. For reference, my first pass was this:
http://bit.ly/mOLpJC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261062
The "E-Green" model is meant for low power consumption systems, not gaming/high performance systems. It's underclocked by default, which is why Nonny's 9800GTX was blowing me out of the water on GPU score. This displeases me greatly; when I was configuring my system on http://ibuypower.com I was told that it would be a "major brand" card. I've never heard of Palit before, and I certainly wasn't aware that I was getting an underclocked card for my gaming model rig. I'll be contacting IBuyPower to see if I can get something out of them... hopefully an apology at the very least.
That said, if there's any one component in my system that I would have to pick to underperform, it'd be the GPU. It's the easiest component to replace and it's also the component that I replace most regularly in the regular course of upgrades anyways.
After spending some time with VTune, I got it properly clocked back up and adjusted to this score:
http://bit.ly/oY3cTr
That's a lot more reasonable. For reference, my first pass was this:
http://bit.ly/mOLpJC