Time for an upgrade..

[Sam DeathWalker]

That sure is nice.

So the spin test tells us that your gpu is way more then you need and you are texture lag limited.

(Fewer textures need be loaded when spinning but you still max stress the gpu).

And as expected you are more texture lagged as you have more clients.

I don't see any reason to play above 60fps so if your gpu can get 60fps during the spin test then its good enough and money best spent on the SSD.

Well as expected but overall results are basically fantastic. I am not getting anywhere near that. Have to move to a X58 at some point at least on my main I guess.

These tests also show that the system is not CPU limited either, its limited by getting the textures from SSD to System Ram to Video Ram as shown by the flying being lower (a lot) fps then then spinning.

I'm also kinda wondering if the 1.5G on your current system is giving you a big edge over people with 1G on their video cards .....



When you run 5 clients you tile 4 at lower resolutions with IsBoxer? Whats your Switch charater to Main screen from low resolution speed about? With your GPU maybe you can render all 5 tiled at full resolution (if you are not already) which should vastly speed up client to main screen portion switching. I can see that to be an excellent reason to use a higherpower gpu.



By the way whats your ping and are you using the onboard nic?

Whats the ping with one, and then with 5 clients?