FFXI Bench 2 Score / Specs

Fire · 09-30-2003, 03:21 AM

err.. Gonna need a little more info please. What kind of motherboard? DL AIDA if you dont have it allready and that should tell u all about ur system.

But ya a new processor, prob new motherboard, and 512mb more ram would help.

Doppelganger · 09-30-2003, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by EdLev
My vid card is screwing me over.

1800 average score on high res...-sigh-
2900 average on low res, but...FFXI on low res?!

These are my stats:
Pentium 4 2.53 ghz
512 MB PC800 RDRAM (or RAMBUS)
GeForce 3 Ti 200 128 MB (see?)
Windows 2000 Pro
And a 40 gig HD (recently defragmented and cleaned).

i have the same motherboard/cpu/ram, but a ti 4200 64mb. guess second bench focuses on gpu, not cpu. guess ide get 4000+ on high with 9600pro

Katraell · 10-01-2003, 06:34 PM

New Bench Low Res= 5951 , High Res= 5115

specs are
2.8 pentium4
radeon 9800 (not pro)
1024 dual channal.

Doppelganger · 10-01-2003, 07:54 PM

if you didn't already turn off hyperthreading (got to go into bios, it's right there), you should. you may get 5300 on high, while im stuck with 3300

Shauku · 10-02-2003, 09:45 AM

I downloaded the new bios from intel for my Mboard and tweaked a little more my Vcard and there is the change in my score.

Old: 5570 (didnt make a new test, then its with my old config)

New-Low: from 5200 to 5275
New-High: from 3850 to 4275 (major dif)

MBoard: Intel D875PBZ 533-800 fsb
CPU: Intel P4 2.4c 800fsb HT
Vcard: ATI Radeon 9600pro 128mb (from 465/337 to 485/350)
Ram: 1.5g DDR ram pc3200 (2x512 + 2x256)
HDD: 80gig Maxtor 7200rpm
Scard: SBlive 5.1 (who cares :confused: )

Do anyone know if i can overclock my cpu with that Mboard, i tried but it seems Intel makes that impossible.) Maybe a little teaching of Overclocking for Dummies would be nice.

Doppelganger · 10-02-2003, 01:44 PM

i ran the bech in a method which should have stopped it. i had 7 IE windows (each using 5mb RAM, 15mb VM), windows media player (7 mb Ram, 16mb VM), and aim (11mb ram, 5mb VM).
i ran it first on low, and i got 4425, in the normal average for my low score. then i ran it on high, although the sound was almost impossible to hear (meaning it was running on the edge), i got a 3240, just about 200 points lower than my normal on high. i guess this bench has some error, or it is the most effective bench i have seen.

my computer was using 100% cpu, >400mb ram, >500mb VM. is that odd aerobahn?

aerobahn · 10-02-2003, 09:54 PM

Nope. Running XP right?

Because that was the main program running, Xp Made it a CPU priority. When it ran out of ram it shoved all the other programs into VM. But after that your system was more or less 100%dedicated to the benchmark. The reason why you only got a few points lower was because the inital task for allocating the resources and moving the other apps into VM.

.

Because I have 1 gig of ram. Allow me to do a test.
I will be *running WMP playing "Audio Slave"*. Have 10 webpages open 1 including a flash visual. Trillian and MS Paint with a crappy stick figure that i just drew. Scores are as followed.
low 8187
high 7740

hmmm Because windows had enough memory to do both, and the fact that i turned off VM there was no reall hit on preformence (hyperthreading had its role to play as well) .

Ahhh the joys of 1 gig of ram. Please go to newegg right now and buy another stick of ram

Lone Dragon · 10-02-2003, 10:24 PM

High: about 1500 (never more than 10-20 more or less than that)
Low: about 2700

P4 2.53 gig
265 DDR SDRAM
64MB DDR GeForce4 MX 420

Even with other various programs running, the scores aren't very different from a fresh boot while being totally cleaned (which I've been doing a lot since I got the bench. :x)

I believe all I need to improve my score is another stick of RAM, but I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how to increase my score without making any purchases.

NOTE: I more or less know shit about computers, so you may have to go into relatively deep detail and tell me exactly where I need to go and what I need to do if you help me.

aerobahn · 10-02-2003, 10:30 PM

well besides the ram.. im sorry to say your graphics card is very lacking. If you have any hopes as to having a higher score you will need to buy 2 things, Ram and a new graphics card. There's really nothing else you can do. sorry man

Lone Dragon · 10-02-2003, 10:39 PM

Hmmm...ok, but I HAVE noticed people who have older/crappier graphics cards still scoring higher than me in high res by 500-700 points.
They usually have more RAM than I do, so I believe that's all I need.

EDIT: Hey, is screwing with pagefile worth it? I have a lot of space I doubt I'm gunna use any time soon.

My HD is (apparently) 60gig WDC something or other

aerobahn · 10-02-2003, 11:16 PM

well sure adding more ram will help alot. but your grahics card will kill you. cant get 100 bucks?

well pagefile tweaking will help. But the whole point is not to use it...

InuTrunks · 10-02-2003, 11:20 PM

Benchmark's in sig.

Hey Aero, that pci blower thing you were talking about, what way is yours facing? drawing air onto, or away from the graphics card?

aerobahn · 10-02-2003, 11:59 PM

lol I dont have one. I water cool:

But I have heard the Suck vs Blow debate a million times in a million forums.

Because the Nature of the Pci fan I would have it blowing.

Make sure your Pci fan has that option as well :p

smiler73 · 10-03-2003, 01:27 AM

got a new pc 2 month's ago just so i could play FFXI , but on the bench mark test got 2099L and 695H ?
got 512 ram , pentium4 2.66 ghz, nvidia g-force 4 68mb unshared, 60 GB hdd ?? when on the high res test the picture keep's sticking and freezing ? is there anything i can do to tweak my system?

aerobahn · 10-03-2003, 01:32 AM

sure but the most it could do is bring up your score a few hundred points... its your graphics card...

09-30-2003, 03:21 AM	#31
Fire Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 479 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	err.. Gonna need a little more info please. What kind of motherboard? DL AIDA if you dont have it allready and that should tell u all about ur system. But ya a new processor, prob new motherboard, and 512mb more ram would help. __________________ Race : Mithra Main Job : Thief / Ranger Linkshell : Lunarians

10-01-2003, 06:34 PM	#33
Katraell Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 13 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	New Bench Low Res= 5951 , High Res= 5115 specs are 2.8 pentium4 radeon 9800 (not pro) 1024 dual channal. __________________ Hume Male 1 War

10-01-2003, 07:54 PM	#34
Doppelganger Senior Member Brass Ribbon of Service Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,011 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	if you didn't already turn off hyperthreading (got to go into bios, it's right there), you should. you may get 5300 on high, while im stuck with 3300 __________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help the admins be using the report function... and bug them on AIM till they pay attencion ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proud member of the Fire Division of Crystal Guardians.

10-02-2003, 09:45 AM	#35
Shauku Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 24 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	I downloaded the new bios from intel for my Mboard and tweaked a little more my Vcard and there is the change in my score. Old: 5570 (didnt make a new test, then its with my old config) New-Low: from 5200 to 5275 New-High: from 3850 to 4275 (major dif) MBoard: Intel D875PBZ 533-800 fsb CPU: Intel P4 2.4c 800fsb HT Vcard: ATI Radeon 9600pro 128mb (from 465/337 to 485/350) Ram: 1.5g DDR ram pc3200 (2x512 + 2x256) HDD: 80gig Maxtor 7200rpm Scard: SBlive 5.1 (who cares :confused: ) Do anyone know if i can overclock my cpu with that Mboard, i tried but it seems Intel makes that impossible.) Maybe a little teaching of Overclocking for Dummies would be nice. __________________ DRK 48 : WAR 31 : BLM 25 : RDM 17 : PLD 10 : NIN 10 : SAM 9 : BRD 8 RSE: 4/4 DRK AF: 1/6 Cooking: 37

10-02-2003, 01:44 PM	#36
Doppelganger Senior Member Brass Ribbon of Service Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,011 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	I just got the wierdest response from the bench i ran the bech in a method which should have stopped it. i had 7 IE windows (each using 5mb RAM, 15mb VM), windows media player (7 mb Ram, 16mb VM), and aim (11mb ram, 5mb VM). i ran it first on low, and i got 4425, in the normal average for my low score. then i ran it on high, although the sound was almost impossible to hear (meaning it was running on the edge), i got a 3240, just about 200 points lower than my normal on high. i guess this bench has some error, or it is the most effective bench i have seen. my computer was using 100% cpu, >400mb ram, >500mb VM. is that odd aerobahn? __________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help the admins be using the report function... and bug them on AIM till they pay attencion ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proud member of the Fire Division of Crystal Guardians.

10-02-2003, 09:54 PM	#37
aerobahn Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 289 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	Nope. Running XP right? Because that was the main program running, Xp Made it a CPU priority. When it ran out of ram it shoved all the other programs into VM. But after that your system was more or less 100%dedicated to the benchmark. The reason why you only got a few points lower was because the inital task for allocating the resources and moving the other apps into VM. . Because I have 1 gig of ram. Allow me to do a test. I will be running WMP playing "Audio Slave". Have 10 webpages open 1 including a flash visual. Trillian and MS Paint with a crappy stick figure that i just drew. Scores are as followed. low 8187 high 7740 hmmm Because windows had enough memory to do both, and the fact that i turned off VM there was no reall hit on preformence (hyperthreading had its role to play as well) . Ahhh the joys of 1 gig of ram. Please go to newegg right now and buy another stick of ram

10-02-2003, 10:24 PM	#38
Lone Dragon Member Bronze Ribbon of Service Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 617 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	High: about 1500 (never more than 10-20 more or less than that) Low: about 2700 P4 2.53 gig 265 DDR SDRAM 64MB DDR GeForce4 MX 420 Even with other various programs running, the scores aren't very different from a fresh boot while being totally cleaned (which I've been doing a lot since I got the bench. :x) I believe all I need to improve my score is another stick of RAM, but I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how to increase my score without making any purchases. NOTE: I more or less know shit about computers, so you may have to go into relatively deep detail and tell me exactly where I need to go and what I need to do if you help me. __________________ Rude, but not wrong. ;x Rank 10 Bastok, Rank 10 San d'Oria, Rank 10 Windurst 'Rize of the Zilart' Missions: Completed 'Chains of Promathia' Missions: Completed Treasures of Aht Urhgan Missions: #8 Private First Class Purple: O \| Brown: O \| Black X ;-; Mee Deggi the Punisher: 1/1 (no help, no TH) "I Kill For Fun, Meng!!" - Tony

10-02-2003, 10:30 PM	#39
aerobahn Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 289 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	well besides the ram.. im sorry to say your graphics card is very lacking. If you have any hopes as to having a higher score you will need to buy 2 things, Ram and a new graphics card. There's really nothing else you can do. sorry man

10-02-2003, 10:39 PM	#40
Lone Dragon Member Bronze Ribbon of Service Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 617 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	Hmmm...ok, but I HAVE noticed people who have older/crappier graphics cards still scoring higher than me in high res by 500-700 points. They usually have more RAM than I do, so I believe that's all I need. EDIT: Hey, is screwing with pagefile worth it? I have a lot of space I doubt I'm gunna use any time soon. My HD is (apparently) 60gig WDC something or other __________________ Rude, but not wrong. ;x Rank 10 Bastok, Rank 10 San d'Oria, Rank 10 Windurst 'Rize of the Zilart' Missions: Completed 'Chains of Promathia' Missions: Completed Treasures of Aht Urhgan Missions: #8 Private First Class Purple: O \| Brown: O \| Black X ;-; Mee Deggi the Punisher: 1/1 (no help, no TH) "I Kill For Fun, Meng!!" - Tony

10-02-2003, 11:16 PM	#41
aerobahn Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 289 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	well sure adding more ram will help alot. but your grahics card will kill you. cant get 100 bucks? well pagefile tweaking will help. But the whole point is not to use it...

10-02-2003, 11:20 PM	#42
InuTrunks Veteran Member Allied Ribbon of Bravery Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Charleston, SC Posts: 1,612 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 76 Thanked 50x in 38 Posts	Benchmark's in sig. Hey Aero, that pci blower thing you were talking about, what way is yours facing? drawing air onto, or away from the graphics card? __________________ -Baka Inu! Nejiko - Mithra Current: [ 70 THF / 35 NIN ] Basic Jobs: [ 70 THF / 20 MNK / 11 WHM / 18 BLM / 22WAR / 05 RDM] Advance Jobs: [ 04 BST / 37 NIN / 02 SMN / 05RNG / 07 SAM / 07 PLD / 00 DRK / 31 BRD / 00 DRG] Aht Jobs: [07 COR / 00 BLU / 00 PUP]

10-02-2003, 11:59 PM	#43
aerobahn Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 289 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	lol I dont have one. I water cool: But I have heard the Suck vs Blow debate a million times in a million forums. Because the Nature of the Pci fan I would have it blowing. Make sure your Pci fan has that option as well :p

10-03-2003, 01:27 AM	#44
smiler73 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 33 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	help.............. got a new pc 2 month's ago just so i could play FFXI , but on the bench mark test got 2099L and 695H ? got 512 ram , pentium4 2.66 ghz, nvidia g-force 4 68mb unshared, 60 GB hdd ?? when on the high res test the picture keep's sticking and freezing ? is there anything i can do to tweak my system?

10-03-2003, 01:32 AM	#45
aerobahn Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 289 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	sure but the most it could do is bring up your score a few hundred points... its your graphics card...

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