Hi guys, bit confused after my recent graphics card upgrade in preparation for Warhammer Online next week. I've put in a better graphics card and more powerful PSU, i did a system benchmark using NovaBench2 before and after and while my graphics performance has increased slightly, my CPU performance has decreased. results from the benchmarks are below:

i went from having Nvidia FX5200 to a Sapphire HD3850. I also upgraded my PSU from the original 300w to a OCZ StealthXStream 600w to power the new card.

With the old FX 5200
NovaBench Score: 146

04/09/2008 14:25:27
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.06GHz @ 3087 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
1024 MB System RAM (Score: 40)

CPU Tests (Score: 71)

- Floating Point Operations/Second: 39117144
- Integer Operations/Second: 12428791
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 2760

Graphics Tests (Score: 21)

- Random Lines Drawn/Second: 9628
- Random Shapes Drawn/Second: 3524

Hardware Tests (Score: 14)

- Primary Partition Capacity: 114 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 7.28 MB/s
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With the new Sapphire HD3850
NovaBench Score: 131

04/09/2008 15:16:55
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.06GHz @ 3087 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3850
1024 MB System RAM (Score: 40)

CPU Tests (Score: 50)

- Floating Point Operations/Second: 29796081
- Integer Operations/Second: 6886346
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 22708

Graphics Tests (Score: 25)

- Random Lines Drawn/Second: 12404
- Random Shapes Drawn/Second: 3249

Hardware Tests (Score: 16)

- Primary Partition Capacity: 114 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 8.62 MB/s [size="3"][/size]

This isn't a major problem but if im losing out on performance that i dont need to be i'd like to know.

Many thanks,
Chris

This post has been edited by aminal: Sep 4 2008, 10:26 AM

Synthetic benchmarks are not to be trusted. How has it been handling in real gaming?


Are you going Order or Destruction?

Well i put all the video settings on WoW upto full and the video is running very smooth, previously they were on about 30% and it was juddery so thats good news... Do you not think its something to be concerned with? My processors' Floating Point Operations/Second, Integer Operations/Second and MD5 Hashes Generated/Second have decreased. what does this even mean?

What benchmark Should I have used?



after playing a Pally for the last 2 years im feeling the need for something a deciededly evil so Marauder it is! Possibly a squig herder alt

Marauder would have been my choice if my guild would have chose Destruction. I will be playing either a Bright Wizzard or a Shaddow Warrior.



Don't use benchmarks. Actual gaming performance is all that really matters.




It's more or less how much it processes in a given time. Why it would lower beats me.

Have you downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the ATI/AMD website?

I had a look at the drivers on the website but it said only to download em if you have trouble, i might give it a go tomorrow... Cheers for advice titan if anyone else gets any ideas why this might have changed pls let me know!