Good morning,
First off here is my system:
Intel Core I-7 960, OC 4.0Ghz
12GB Corsair Dominator RAM
Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950
Gskill Pheonix SSD 120GB
1TB WD Slave HDD
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 mobo
I have more of a concern/dissapointment more then anything, and I am actually hoping that maybe I am having bad card/driver issues.
First let me lay the groundwork - I did a driver sweep in safemode to clear any underlying drivers from my previous GFX Card, after install it gave me a yellow caution, installation was successful but with possible errors. So I check the log, and I don't see any errors.
So I immediately test it via 3DMark 11, and I gotta say this is where my dissapointment starts, in performance I was averaging as low as 20FPS with the same "Judder" that I am about to explain to you at all times during testing.
under extreme I was getting 7-8fps during testing.
After testing I viewed my scores online and it stated that "Unable to verify graphics card, unable to verify drivers, scores will not be posted" something along those lines..
At this point I start messing with AMD Catalyst and adjusting the performance settings, give it a slight OC (It came factory OC'd at 925) and bumped it up to 1050 after slow increases of 10MHZ at a time. it felt like it should be solid, especially after seeing other performance rates online, and my temps never went above 40c.
Clock rates were: GPU clock: 1050
Mem Clock: 1575
After awhile I start getting slight artifacting and even display driver Stopped responding, I bumped it back down a few notches eventually becoming solid at 1010gpu and 1500 memory clock.
while overall I am "Happy" with these clock rates my problem lies with performance.
While playing SWTOR with all settings on max it's FPS is 110, but the problem is the framerates are juddered not smooth Almost like it isn't able to compute it smoothly, it is really choppy/jerky and even though it states it is displaying 110 fps it feels like somewhere in the 20-25fps range.
I eventually turned shadows on low and turned off AA - while this improved it, I noticed it was still displaying with judders/jerky framerates, not the smooth 110 frames I was expecting. And honestly I dont feel I should "NEED" to turn graphics down with my setup.
Furthermore and lastly, coming from my ATI Radeon HD 5870, I felt like at times, it was running it just as well if not better at moments. I literally see no improvement.
First off here is my system:
Intel Core I-7 960, OC 4.0Ghz
12GB Corsair Dominator RAM
Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950
Gskill Pheonix SSD 120GB
1TB WD Slave HDD
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 mobo
I have more of a concern/dissapointment more then anything, and I am actually hoping that maybe I am having bad card/driver issues.
First let me lay the groundwork - I did a driver sweep in safemode to clear any underlying drivers from my previous GFX Card, after install it gave me a yellow caution, installation was successful but with possible errors. So I check the log, and I don't see any errors.
So I immediately test it via 3DMark 11, and I gotta say this is where my dissapointment starts, in performance I was averaging as low as 20FPS with the same "Judder" that I am about to explain to you at all times during testing.
under extreme I was getting 7-8fps during testing.
After testing I viewed my scores online and it stated that "Unable to verify graphics card, unable to verify drivers, scores will not be posted" something along those lines..
At this point I start messing with AMD Catalyst and adjusting the performance settings, give it a slight OC (It came factory OC'd at 925) and bumped it up to 1050 after slow increases of 10MHZ at a time. it felt like it should be solid, especially after seeing other performance rates online, and my temps never went above 40c.
Clock rates were: GPU clock: 1050
Mem Clock: 1575
After awhile I start getting slight artifacting and even display driver Stopped responding, I bumped it back down a few notches eventually becoming solid at 1010gpu and 1500 memory clock.
while overall I am "Happy" with these clock rates my problem lies with performance.
While playing SWTOR with all settings on max it's FPS is 110, but the problem is the framerates are juddered not smooth Almost like it isn't able to compute it smoothly, it is really choppy/jerky and even though it states it is displaying 110 fps it feels like somewhere in the 20-25fps range.
I eventually turned shadows on low and turned off AA - while this improved it, I noticed it was still displaying with judders/jerky framerates, not the smooth 110 frames I was expecting. And honestly I dont feel I should "NEED" to turn graphics down with my setup.
Furthermore and lastly, coming from my ATI Radeon HD 5870, I felt like at times, it was running it just as well if not better at moments. I literally see no improvement.