You will NOT get full potential of R9 270 in many games.
At least I am NOT getting it.
I upgraded from ancient Athlon X2 5000+ 2.6 Ghz to Phenom II X4 910E 3.1 Ghz and saw major major performance gain with R9 270.
With the X2 Athlon my 270 was sometimes SLOWER THAN 9800GT and became an actual...
So I have this wonderful, yet very slightly dated computer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93gGHbie8XA.
Naturally, watching YouTube is like watching a gentle slieshow. HD mode - forget about it.
This system has a rather exotic and, as it turns out, absolutely pain-the-arse Asus ATi...
The 910E was doing much more than just fileserving. It was running one VM with websites (with solid amount of traffic) and another for a few gameservers.
So it wasn't a foregone conclusion that the Athlon K8 X2 would actually be good enough.
I haven't checked the gameservers but website...
Used Phenom IIs are ridiculously pricey.
So, in an act of desperation, I swapped my Athlon X2 with the Phenom II 910E I had in my webserver, and, let me tell you, it made all the difference in the world!
I am running the 910E at 3.2 Ghz and here are results before and after:
3DMark 2006...
In BF3 my CPU useage is pegged 100% both cores and constantly.
In newer games like BF3 or Planetside2 I do actually feel increase in FPS, especially when i crank up AA, texture size etc.
But the increaase is still marginal, considering the huge difference in pure compute power between the two...
Not as cheap in Latvia. The cheapest counterparts I could find in cheapest shops:
34.90 - INTEL Celeron G1820 2,70GHz LGA1150 BOX
48.73 - MSI B85M-P32 m-ATX LGA1150
28.11 - Crucial 4GB DIMM DDR3 1600MHz
Total: 111.73 EUR / 153.23 USD
Besides, I woud want at least two PCI-E 16x...
Sub 20s in Proxy was when that steam tank fell and the door opened and a bunch of new troopers started firing at the camera.
Firefly ran at pathetic ~30 - 35 fps average, breaking into high 20s at times. Both Firefly and Proxyconn are supposed to be "Shader Model 2.0" tests and that's where 270...
Disclaimer: I do know what CPU bottle-necking is, and this is not supposed to be, primarily, a gaming setup.
So I replaced 9800GT with R9 270 (Gigabyte) in my old AM2 board (Gigabyte M57SLI-S4, nVidia nForce 570 chipset) with a Brisbane Athlon X2 5000+, and I am getting low GPU usage and...
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