FFXI Bench 2 Score / Specs

[Snafu-SI]

Just put in my new videocard
Which is a ATI Radeon 9600XT, got it for 85 bux.

Comp is a
P4 3.0 gig
1 gig of Corsair PC3200 DDR 400 ram

With my OLD card which was a Radeon 8500LE, my scores were:
High Reso = 3200 overclocked = 3400
Low reso = 4200 overclocked = 4400


Just put in my Radeon 9600XT yesterday, scores were:

High reso = 4400 overclocked = 4600
Low Reso =5300 = overclocked = haven't tested.


This is with everything turned on to the max, bump map, smoother textrues, blah blah, etc...:p

I'm also running the DIVI digital input into my monitor now, it looks great!

[Vairu]

Congrats on building the new comp! I just recently built my OWN first desktop, i've built many before just not for me until now. Hope you have fun, and good luck with below .

9700 can take a heavy load compared to my card so idk what to say, but mine is set as followed:

Direct3D:
2x AA
4x AF(tick the performance radio button, not quality*)
The first 2 sliders below this should be to the far right at Quality and the last 2 sliders at always off

OpenGL:
Same as above.


**people have been able to tell no dramatic difference in quality or performance for AF, except on performance they get a few more FPS


That should be good for standard gameplay, although i'm sure your 9700 can handle more than this, you prolly won't tell the difference in anything higher with FFXI. If this is too heavy for you let me know and i can 'break-it-down' more . Good Luck mate.

[Ponoiko]

they are both at balanced should i make them more quality or performance (i really dont know that much about comps and this is my first one that i built myself)

[Vairu]

it is 3.10. Dude your scores should be better still though, that's what i get and your specs eat me. What do you have Direct3D and OpenGL set to in your ATI config??

right click desktop>properties>settings>advanced>3D tab

[Ponoiko]

ok with the newest driver (i think its 3.10)
H-4788
L-5305

[GSDragoon]

lol, yes. Updating drivers is very important.

[Ponoiko]

really would it help if i installed the catalists driver things

[Vairu]

dude your scores suck ass for a 9700 ><!! There must be something wrong with your comp yo cause that card can blow mine away so you should get like 5k+ on the benchmark

[Ponoiko]

Old-5308
L-4425
H-3923

AMD 2500+
512 ram
ATI 9700 AIW

[Vairu]

Specs in Sig.

4500~ High
5700~ Low

[Tobold]

Athlon XP 2000+
512 MB RAM
Radeon 9600 Pro

2608-High
didn't test low, wouldn't want to run it

Since I changed from Geforce 3 Ti 200 to Radeon 9600 Pro, the bottleneck is the CPU. Putting an even faster graphics card in without a faster processor would not improve things much.

I'm always a bit surprised how little people think of balancing their systems. A 1.7 GHz CPU with a 9800 Pro or a 3 GHz CPU with a Geforce MX 420 both make no sense. In both cases one half of your computer is braking the other half.

[Stubbr]

well lets see here.... most ppl who are getting high scores are on ATis...id rather have one but here are my results on my comp

XP2100 (oced to 2.00)
1gig ddr 2700
asus a7_____mobo(not the delux and i forget the res of the name of the mobo lol its rad though)
Geforce 5700 ultra overclocked of course
7200 40gigr 8mb cache
BOOYAH------->4833 twweeeeeaked (thanks to some tips from waiter/techguy
thanks a lot btw =P)

[Kamzu]

H - 5800
L - 6353

Athlon 64 3200+
512 Megs of Corsair XMS 4000 DDR500
Sapphire 9800 XT

All settings on default.

[anxz]

thanks vairu!

One more thing... Does HD memory changes anything in terms of gameplay quality?

Sry about the stupid question and thanks in advance.

[Vairu]

it should be higher than 5k i think