The Godzilla Diaries

Thursday 08 July 2010 at 2:22 pm My Dad and I will be doing a blog when we're over in Japan. We're leaving tomorrow, and you can follow it at: http://godzilladiaries.underflownetworks.com/. That is all.

GTX470 vs GTX275: some benchmarks...

Thursday 01 July 2010 at 9:25 pm GTX275 and E8500 at 3.3GHZ:
3dMark Vantage: 13480 3dMarks, 34158 CPU, 11216 GPU
3dMark 06: 14839 3DMarks, 6828 SM 2.0, 7545 SM 3.0, 2988 CPU
FurryMark: 1920x1200 Fullscreen, 60000ms, MSAA off: 4037 points
X-Plane 9: Extreme res, 3x1680x1050 multihead, 15nm visibility: ~20fps

GTX470 and E8500 at 3518MHZ:
3dMark Vantage: 16790 3dmarks, 38769 CPU, 14122 GPU
3dMark 06: 16268 3dMarks, 6969 SM 2.0, 9103 SM 3.0, 3127 CPU
FurMark: same as above: 4177 points
X-Plane 9: ~25FPS, same settings, but I think it's actually achieving 15nm. This is without Nvidia eyefinity... i mean surround.
Reboot test: All 3 screens work, every time :D

Only annoyance is that I actually bought the GT220 because the fan in the card it's replacing is annoyingly loud, but MSI Afterburner allows you to adjust it down a bit.

New Hardware :)

Thursday 01 July 2010 at 6:51 pm Bought a GTX470 and a GT220 to replace the GTX275 and FX540 in my desktop. I am installing 3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage at the moment to see how much faster the new card is. It must be good, there's a fighter jet on the box.

If you haven't been following, the GTX275 is a Gigabyte one... which I have covered before...

In other news, the StackBook project is sadly dead, but the board lives on, it's attached to a two way radio as a RSSI meter, a job for which it works nicely :)