https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/heaven/
Since I am still testing for stability in my system I was poking around and found this benchmark.. It does a good job of heating up my video card and CPU. Actually my system gets damn loud after running this for a few min as the fans all crank up to 100%... I am starting to think I should upgrade my CASE fans to variable high throughput ones to get more air moving.
My quite / silent video card makes a hell of a noise once it hits 100%.
Hmm! I'll give this a shot, I'm curious now
Requires a lot of disk!
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 05:52:23 PM
Hmm! I'll give this a shot, I'm curious now
Requires a lot of disk!
Have to have lots and lots of high resolution textures these days with video cards having huge amounts of ram.
This benchmark uses a lot of the directX 11 feature set... Not exactly photo realistic but very detailed, stone and grass for sure..
I would recommend downloading via the torrent option on the site (in the arrow on the download button), their normal download link is capped...
Haha, I just walked away to make dinner and it's almost done :)
My score with the "Extreme" settings was 2566
FPS: 101.9
Score: 2566
Min FPS: 27.5
Max FPS: 221.6
Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1600x900 8xAA windowed
Preset Extreme
My score with the default "custom" settings was 4067
FPS: 161.5
Score: 4067
Min FPS: 34.4
Max FPS: 301.2
Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset Custom
Quality High
Tessellation: Disabled
System Info:
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz (3499MHz) x4
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 10.18.13.6175 (4095MB) x1
The only thing I really noticed was I/O loading textures and some sound distortion, which could be solved with an SSD
Now I am going to be tempted to overclock damn you and your i7 and Ti video card....
FPS:
74.5
Score:
1877
Min FPS:
8.7
Max FPS:
163.1
System
Platform:
Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz (2711MHz) x4
GPU model:
AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series 15.301.1201.0 (4095MB) x1
Settings
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1600x900 8xAA windowed
Preset
Extreme
Some games are really demanding but are so much more playable at 60 fps (not sure why, they just are) and like I said before my main bottleneck is the HDD
I'd swap it out with an SSD but I don't want to re-install all my stuff again
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 10:38:44 PM
Some games are really demanding but are so much more playable at 60 fps (not sure why, they just are) and like I said before my main bottleneck is the HDD
I'd swap it out with an SSD but I don't want to re-install all my stuff again
If the SSD is big enough you don't have to re-install you can just clone the old drive over.
Quote from: Lazybones on February 08, 2016, 10:40:45 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 10:38:44 PM
Some games are really demanding but are so much more playable at 60 fps (not sure why, they just are) and like I said before my main bottleneck is the HDD
I'd swap it out with an SSD but I don't want to re-install all my stuff again
If the SSD is big enough you don't have to re-install you can just clone the old drive over.
My main drive is only 1 TB anyway...
YOU MAKE A COGENT ARGUMENT DAMN YOU
How much of that 1TB is in use?
A 512GB SSD isn't too bad now, however to clone it you would have to do a special consolidated degrade and shrink the main partition which is a bit tricky.
I was able to improve my results a little by pushing up my GPU clock
FPS:
76.3
Score:
1922
Min FPS:
24.5
Max FPS:
166.2
System
Platform:
Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz (2711MHz) x4
GPU model:
AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series 15.301.1201.0 (4095MB) x1
Settings
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1600x900 8xAA windowed
Preset
Extreme
Will this break my laptop?
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 11:03:57 PM
Quote from: Lazybones on February 08, 2016, 10:40:45 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 10:38:44 PM
Some games are really demanding but are so much more playable at 60 fps (not sure why, they just are) and like I said before my main bottleneck is the HDD
I'd swap it out with an SSD but I don't want to re-install all my stuff again
If the SSD is big enough you don't have to re-install you can just clone the old drive over.
My main drive is only 1 TB anyway...
YOU MAKE A COGENT ARGUMENT DAMN YOU
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX55509. Only six hundred bucks and you can just clone it over. Do it, you'll be happier for it. I switched my eight-year-old Dell over to an SSD and it breathed new life into the machine. Although I won't bother running these tests on it, I'm sure I'd get a -1 rating.
Quote from: Thorin on February 09, 2016, 08:37:36 AM
Although I won't bother running these tests on it, I'm sure I'd get a -1 rating.
Lol benchmarks almost always result in some form of disappointment.
Quote from: Thorin on February 09, 2016, 08:37:36 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 11:03:57 PM
Quote from: Lazybones on February 08, 2016, 10:40:45 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2016, 10:38:44 PM
Some games are really demanding but are so much more playable at 60 fps (not sure why, they just are) and like I said before my main bottleneck is the HDD
I'd swap it out with an SSD but I don't want to re-install all my stuff again
If the SSD is big enough you don't have to re-install you can just clone the old drive over.
My main drive is only 1 TB anyway...
YOU MAKE A COGENT ARGUMENT DAMN YOU
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX55509. Only six hundred bucks and you can just clone it over. Do it, you'll be happier for it. I switched my eight-year-old Dell over to an SSD and it breathed new life into the machine. Although I won't bother running these tests on it, I'm sure I'd get a -1 rating.
I'll phone them up later today / tomorrow, I had this machine built there and the disk includes a windows 7 recovery partition
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 09, 2016, 07:22:44 AM
Will this break my laptop?
Probably, unless you meet the min requirements, also how hot you want to let your video card to get. I think that's the hottest my vid card has ever gotten. I could feel the heat
I just swapped my media box from an OLD 300G Seagate to a newer but still old 120G SSD. Just booted up GpartedLive, shrunk the filesystems, cloned them to the ssd. and expanded the FSs again.
In my case it was a bit more complicated than it should have been since I was using LVM (Linux Logical Volume Manager), so instead of using built in features of Ultimate Boot CD or GpartedLive, I had to use the LVM tools directly. They do support NTFS, but you have to make sure to defrag first, and preferably defrag offline (not booted into the Install, so it can move the NTFS tables).
A $600 SSD is a bit overkill imo. lol.
Of course if you're worried about doing it yourself, MemEx would be happy to do it for you for a fee :D probably not too expensive though.
Quote from: Tom on February 09, 2016, 09:16:25 AM
A $600 SSD is a bit overkill imo. lol.
He's rich, though. No kids, no wife, no car to soak up his money. He's free, to do what he wants (how does the rest of that song go?)
Quote from: Thorin on February 09, 2016, 09:43:19 AM
Quote from: Tom on February 09, 2016, 09:16:25 AM
A $600 SSD is a bit overkill imo. lol.
He's rich, though. No kids, no wife, no car to soak up his money. He's free, to do what he wants (how does the rest of that song go?)
Well i still maintain a budget :)
In fact I had to start doin' commissions again because I think my tablet is dying
I think you also have a Mortgage to care about, which is not something to scoff at.
Not to mention the new PC and the 980ti and the new 4k monitor? Sha.
Hell I spent $600 on upgrading my /desk/ recently. And added two new SSDs to my desktop which probably accounts for 300 more? 256GB Evo, and some cheap 480GB sandisk for more mass-storage on the desktop.
UGH and $1200 on the NAS. FFFFFF
What is budget. </badrussianaccent>
I'm only about 9 years away from paying it off so ... I'm not worried
The thing is I HAVE the money but I plan an allowance for myself, currently I need to buy new furniture and lighting for my house, which I have a tentative estimate for already which is going to eat up my "stuff" budget for a while, also I have a vacation coming up next week which will most likely be within $2-4 k range.
Other things I want to buy but have to do the math on to see where they fit:
- Wacom Intuos 4 (about $400)
- Kitchenaid Stand Mixer (from $300 - $600)
- New NAS / disk array
- 1 TB SSD
I'm also looking at more travel this year / putting more cash into RRSP
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 09, 2016, 10:12:46 AM
I'm only about 9 years away from paying it off so ... I'm not worried
That's awesome man! My debt's all low interest now, and I'm paying it off as aggressively as I can. If I continue making the payments as I'm making them now (which gets easier over time as income goes up), and roll over payments from one item to the next as I pay each off, then:
- credit card 5.99% paid off in Sep 2018 (2.5 years)
- truck loan 0% paid off in Sep 2020 (4.5 years)
- trailer loan 5.7% paid off in Dec 2021 (5.75 years)
- homeline 3.2% paid off in Feb 2025 (9 years)
- mortgage 2.99% paid off Dec 2028 (12.75 years)
There's always surprises, though, so I'm adding a third onto each of those numbers.
Man, when all that's paid off I'll have almost $3,000 per month not doing anything. Yeah, between the credit card, truck loan, trailer loan, homeline, and mortgage, I'm paying $3,000 a month. I'll be 54 in 2028, and I'll suddenly be able to take on a $200,000 car loan (payments are $2,826.23 per month for 7 years at 4.99%, less than the $3,000 a month that suddenly became available). I could finally buy a Ferrari!
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 09, 2016, 10:12:46 AM
The thing is I HAVE the money but I plan an allowance for myself
That's very smart. It's not about how much you make but how much you spend - even rich doctors can get in over their heads if they spend more than they make.
Quote from: Thorin on February 09, 2016, 11:06:13 AM
There's always surprises, though, so I'm adding a third onto each of those numbers.
And this is why paying off the big ones is always X years away, something eats away at this years payments if you arn't padding for surprises..
Quote from: Thorin on February 09, 2016, 11:06:13 AM
That's very smart. It's not about how much you make but how much you spend - even rich doctors can get in over their heads if they spend more than they make.
Yep, it is also easier to manage as an individual than a household without turning into the penny pinching NO man. Need to go to the dentist? Na I feel it can wait till next month... Wife beaks a tooth and two kids have something come up? Time to open the wallet, even with coverage.
Hmm, well, I recently opened my wallet because my Drobo was emailing me eight to twelve times a day that data protection had to be run (I'm guessing it was because parts of drives were becoming unresponsives). Really not my family's fault, but that $845 I spent on drives was a surprise. Well, kinda. I knew I'd have to buy some new drives soon, but I hadn't specifically put money aside for it.
Money is like a stream of water. It comes from a lake (job) and flows to buckets (things to save for). Along the way, water gets scooped out of the stream to get used by other people to fill their lakes (bills). If you scoop more water out, less makes it to the buckets. What happens with the buckets? You use them to refill your lake when it gets low (retirement).
Also maybe we need to split this thread a couple posts up?