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re: Quad core!!
by supermandrew on February 22, 2013 2:38 am
Just installed my new mobo and i5. Can't wait to get back into the game and see how it performs. I ended up having to completely reinstall windows so I'm in the middle of downloading drivers and whatnot. See you all soon.
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re: Quad core!!
by PolishRifle on February 22, 2013 1:28 pm
I know when I went from Core 2 Duo to a Core 2 Quad I had a tremendous improvement. I wish I could fit an i3 or i5 on my board.
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re: Quad core!!
by Frost290 on February 22, 2013 3:13 pm
I remember when I changed my mobo and my old CPU was an AMD Athlon X2 and I switched to a 2nd gen I5 2500k last year. I think I came in my pants from the change in game play.
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re: Quad core!!
by supermandrew on February 22, 2013 6:29 pm
I can't believe the improvement. I can run max settings with shadows and lock in 60 frames. The only issue I am kind of running into is my Gpu is running hotter than I expected. I was hitting 84 Celsius this morning. Took out the 80mm fan I had in the front of the rig and just put a 120mm in. I didn't realize how much the airflow in my machine sucked ass. Ran the game for about 45 minutes with AA forced through CCC and shadows off. Hovering between 65 and 70. I think I'm good now.
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re: Quad core!!
by Nwahs on February 22, 2013 7:05 pm
supermandrew wrote: | I can't believe the improvement. I can run max settings with shadows and lock in 60 frames. The only issue I am kind of running into is my Gpu is running hotter than I expected. I was hitting 84 Celsius this morning. Took out the 80mm fan I had in the front of the rig and just put a 120mm in. I didn't realize how much the airflow in my machine sucked ass. Ran the game for about 45 minutes with AA forced through CCC and shadows off. Hovering between 65 and 70. I think I'm good now. |
wtf... I have an i7 with 8gb ram and I can't get 60 frames with shadows on, at least not advanced shadows on the fleet. What GFX card do you have? I think that and my PSU really limit me
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re: Quad core!!
by supermandrew on February 22, 2013 7:21 pm
I have a MSI P8 z77 mobo with the 1155 chip set and 16 gb of RAM . MSI Radeon HD 7770 1gb CARD. Powered by an i5 3750.
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re: Quad core!!
by Nwahs on February 22, 2013 7:55 pm
doesn't only like 12gb register on windows 7?
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re: Quad core!!
by supermandrew on February 22, 2013 8:03 pm
No. It depends on the board you have. Mine will max out at 32 but I won't run anything that takes more than 10 or so. You also need windows 64 bit, of course, to recognize more than 3 and a half. I actually inadvertently ended up with 16. I came across a deal that fell in my lap.
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re: Quad core!!
by Taenn on February 22, 2013 8:45 pm
Nwahs Nirom wrote: | supermandrew wrote: | I can't believe the improvement. I can run max settings with shadows and lock in 60 frames. The only issue I am kind of running into is my Gpu is running hotter than I expected. I was hitting 84 Celsius this morning. Took out the 80mm fan I had in the front of the rig and just put a 120mm in. I didn't realize how much the airflow in my machine sucked ass. Ran the game for about 45 minutes with AA forced through CCC and shadows off. Hovering between 65 and 70. I think I'm good now. |
wtf... I have an i7 with 8gb ram and I can't get 60 frames with shadows on, at least not advanced shadows on the fleet. What GFX card do you have? I think that and my PSU really limit me |
Make sure your CPUs are unparked. I found out the hard way with PLanetside 2 and it made a world of difference.
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re: Quad core!!
by Nwahs on February 22, 2013 9:02 pm
wth is unparked
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re: Quad core!!
by supermandrew on February 22, 2013 11:42 pm
Think of unparking your CPU as taking the governor off a Golf cart. Open that shit up and create some chaos dude!
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re: Quad core!!
by PolishRifle on February 23, 2013 9:26 am
I almost ended up with a 7770 GFX card but my stupid 12 year old dell case had the pci port directly under the cpu cooler so I can only put a single slot option in. Ended up with a 6670 which still performs very well if I keep the resolution under 1400x900
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re: Quad core!!
by Taenn on February 27, 2013 6:43 pm
Nwahs Nirom wrote: | wth is unparked |
On AMD CPUs, sometimes the core are not fully utilized and are employed only when the system demands.
But more often than not, the core are simply not activated. There's a software around that you can use and it will tell you if your cores are parked or not. Made a tremendous difference for me.
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