PCSX2 review : CPU power DOES matter. - Page 5

Traxxx · August 22nd, 2006

Just to get back to topic someone mentioned it would be nice to create a
database so I would like to help but I think there should be said which
games (as fps vary from game to game a lot) and someone should upload
his/her memcard so anyone tests the same.
Perhaps then logging via fraps or similar the fps to a file for a range like
1 minute.

Here some other test from me

Code:

Menu 80-109
    All off   2x    4x FSAA+Filtering
1:   25-27  25-27  25-27
2:   39-45  39-44  36-44
3:   21-25  21-25  20-22
5:   26-30  25-30  20-23
7:   19-25  20-24  20-23
12:  49-53  48-51  47-51
13:  33-36  33-35  31-35

Made with PCSX2 TLB
System:
Athlon 64 3400+ NewCastle (Socket 754, 0.13µm, no SSE3), 1.55V 512kB L2, 2410 MHz
1 GB DDR @ 2x 133.9MHz, Single Channel
Powercolor Radeon X850XT PE
OS: Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Added graph, comparing Min FPS (with 4xFSAA + Filtering) of my
Athlon 64 3400+ vs Athlon X2 4800+ (1 time with MTGS + DC, 1 time
without).
Will add compare with Athlon 64 3800+ and Athlon FX60 soon

The Clock vs FPS is interpolated, I checked 3 different clock speeds and
calculated the AVG FPS of all save points and all FPS/Clock ratios

Attached Images

	compare.jpg (40.3 KB, 60 views)
	clockvsfps.jpg (36.3 KB, 42 views)

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Traxxx

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[Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300,
Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz,
2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo
SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff

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Last edited by Traxxx; August 22nd, 2006 at 13:29.. Reason: Adding Stuff ;)

Eric-1987 · August 22nd, 2006

I got my CPU stable at 2650MHz now and PCSX2 is blazing. I rarely get lower then 40 FPS in FFX and that is very rare when I do. At 2000MHz I would be lower all the time. I'm glad my opty 170 has a good stepping.

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Traxxx · August 24th, 2006

Just wanted to test if it makes any difference installing the Dual Core Hotfix for
WinXP and guess what

it brought -100% performance as Windows crashed
every time at logon X) So it will take some time until I have some new benches X)

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Traxxx

Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org

[Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300,
Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz,
2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo
SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff

]

jusTiC3 · August 24th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Traxxx

Just wanted to test if it makes any difference installing the Dual Core Hotfix for
WinXP and guess what

it brought -100% performance as Windows crashed
every time at logon X) So it will take some time until I have some new benches X)

i've the same problem - win xp crash at random times - it's definitve a problem with this dual core fix from amd...

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Traxxx · August 24th, 2006

I wish that would be my only problem

Problem #2 is Setup freezes when
both gfx cards are build in and if I connect slave card after setup WinXP
simply reboots directly *grmls* (did I mention this is the 1st time reinstalling
WinXP and activation tells me my key has been too often used X))

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Traxxx

Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org

[Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300,
Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz,
2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo
SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff

]

Jean-Christophe · August 25th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by paladin_le

i only wish pcsx2 will take more power from GPU in the future

It's impossible since your PC graphic cards isnt meant to be use on the PS2 operating system. Even in the original console, the cpu is really more important than the GPU...

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CrispySilicon · August 25th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Traxxx

I wish that would be my only problem

Problem #2 is Setup freezes when
both gfx cards are build in and if I connect slave card after setup WinXP
simply reboots directly *grmls* (did I mention this is the 1st time reinstalling
WinXP and activation tells me my key has been too often used X))

Reactivate via the phone and they will give you an authorization code... I upgrade my hardware like every other month so I'm quite firmiliar with the process

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Traxxx · August 25th, 2006

Quote:

Reactivate via the phone and they will give you an authorization code... I upgrade my hardware like every other month so I'm quite firmiliar with the process

I will do so (since I´m forced too) but guess what

Setup is still running
(did now take ~8h) and is just at installing network components, I guess
it will take some hours more (and no I have not the slightest why it´s running
so slow when both gfx cards are installed ^^)

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[Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300,
Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz,
2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo
SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff

]

**RPGW1ZaRD** · August 25th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Traxxx

I will do so (since I´m forced too) but guess what

Setup is still running
(did now take ~8h) and is just at installing network components, I guess
it will take some hours more (and no I have not the slightest why it´s running
so slow when both gfx cards are installed ^^)

OMG, 8hrs that's sure quite a lot excessive time. I mean for me it takes maybe 30mins to do the windows setup and about 30 mins to install everyhing I usually need.

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Jhnboyman · August 25th, 2006

thanks for the review!
must have been lots of hard work!

thanks!

shafeen · August 25th, 2006

hello frds i am considering overclocking my proccesor,my graphics card can u tell me where i can get a gud gide to overclock 4 free and also important softwares for monitoring system temperatures(tell other than mbm5),cooling softwares etc and important things needed to do an overclock

mitchpoodisko · August 25th, 2006

what hardware do you have?
speedfan is a good monitoring program

and check out http://overclockers.com/

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Traxxx · August 27th, 2006

HA! Found the guilty one

AMDs DUAL CORE OPTIMIZER has caused the blue screens.
It´s because I have DaemonTools installed, so users with Alcohol or
Daemon Tools will get this problem as the AMD thing is not compatible
with the SPTD-driver.
If you are getting bluescreens after installing this patch and can´t delete
it via Software simply delete the .exe file in your Autostart folder and
remove the /usemptimer thing in your boot.ini.
Too bad I found this out after reinstalling X)

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[Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300,
Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz,
2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo
SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff

]

Eric-1987 · August 27th, 2006

Nope I got alcohol and daemon tools installed and the dual core optimizer and my computer works fine

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**RPGW1ZaRD** · August 27th, 2006

yup, I've got daemon tools and dual core optimizer installed, no problems here either.

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techjunkie · August 28th, 2006

i have the Dual Core Optimizer and the Dual Core Hotfix. My comp works great. oh and i have Daemon Tools installed.

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Traxxx · August 28th, 2006

If you think I just made this up, see sticky threads at
daemon-tools
forum or
visit alcohol forums or AMD´s forums :P On some systems it works on others not (besides that
AMD tool can have a lot of issues with other things like hibernation).
On my Athlon X2 4800+ system it works (even OCing with using
Cool n Quiet works flawless) with DT + Alc, on my FX60 Crossfire
System it forces bluescreens.
And don´t say "nope" if I tell you that deleting the AMD exe file from
Autostart folder stops the bluescreens on my pc as I doubt you
can proof that it´s not so :P

I justed wanted to help people if they experience them same problem before they
do reinstall everything

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Traxxx

Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org

[Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300,
Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz,
2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo
SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff

]

Last edited by Traxxx; August 28th, 2006 at 06:36..

Fire · August 28th, 2006

good work

]{nIgh7]{rawl3r · September 11th, 2006

Awsome review. Love the fact of playstation 2 is at playable speeds now. I have one question though. I am, however, not using a dual core cpu setup. I am running an Asus K8N-DL server/worksation MB with two single-core AMD Opteron 246 2.0 GHz processors at stock speed. I know little about cpu architecture like |Gand|Alf|, but i am familliar with its workings and easily understand much. In theory my dual single-core-cpu system runs about same or similar to a single dual-core-cpu system at same speeds. I was wondering about your thoughts on this and if PCSX2 will treat my system the same as a dual core system seing how i literally do have 2 cores working together, just on different sockets. I have yet to actually try PCSX2 emulator on my system for i have no Playstation 2 games to try. But soon i will borrow my friend's game and give it a go.

**RPGW1ZaRD** · September 11th, 2006

Not sure how well it would work, I don't think there's any other way than to try it out to be sure.

Since you brought this review up once again I just wanna say I wish I was using a program like fraps to collect the fps rates as it's much more accurate than the built in fps meter.

Some places the ZeroGS meter is displaying exactly same values or close tho but sometimes it doesn't quite.

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August 22nd, 2006	#82 (permalink)
Eric-1987 High End System PCSX2 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 435	I got my CPU stable at 2650MHz now and PCSX2 is blazing. I rarely get lower then 40 FPS in FFX and that is very rare when I do. At 2000MHz I would be lower all the time. I'm glad my opty 170 has a good stepping. __________________ Intel Conroe E6300 @ 3200MHz 2x2048 of OCZ DDR2 HIS 4870 1024MB MSI P7NE 320GB SATA WD HDD 630W Enermax Volcano

August 24th, 2006	#83 (permalink)
Traxxx Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 275	Just wanted to test if it makes any difference installing the Dual Core Hotfix for WinXP and guess what it brought -100% performance as Windows crashed every time at logon X) So it will take some time until I have some new benches X) __________________ CU Traxxx Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org [Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300, Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz, 2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff ]

August 24th, 2006	#85 (permalink)
Traxxx Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 275	I wish that would be my only problem Problem #2 is Setup freezes when both gfx cards are build in and if I connect slave card after setup WinXP simply reboots directly grmls (did I mention this is the 1st time reinstalling WinXP and activation tells me my key has been too often used X)) __________________ CU Traxxx Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org [Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300, Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz, 2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff ]

August 25th, 2006	#90 (permalink)
Jhnboyman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: USA Posts: 4	thanks for the review! must have been lots of hard work! thanks!

August 25th, 2006	#91 (permalink)
shafeen Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: india<<hyderabad..it rocks>> Posts: 2,770	hello frds i am considering overclocking my proccesor,my graphics card can u tell me where i can get a gud gide to overclock 4 free and also important softwares for monitoring system temperatures(tell other than mbm5),cooling softwares etc and important things needed to do an overclock

August 25th, 2006	#92 (permalink)
mitchpoodisko Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London Posts: 28	what hardware do you have? speedfan is a good monitoring program and check out http://overclockers.com/ __________________ e6600 @3.6Ghz - 4GB OCZ 6400 RAMS - Asus P5W DH 500GB 7200.10 - 640MB 8800GTS - Dell 3007WFP

August 27th, 2006	#93 (permalink)
Traxxx Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 275	HA! Found the guilty one AMDs DUAL CORE OPTIMIZER has caused the blue screens. It´s because I have DaemonTools installed, so users with Alcohol or Daemon Tools will get this problem as the AMD thing is not compatible with the SPTD-driver. If you are getting bluescreens after installing this patch and can´t delete it via Software simply delete the .exe file in your Autostart folder and remove the /usemptimer thing in your boot.ini. Too bad I found this out after reinstalling X) __________________ CU Traxxx Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org [Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300, Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz, 2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff ]

August 27th, 2006	#94 (permalink)
Eric-1987 High End System PCSX2 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 435	Nope I got alcohol and daemon tools installed and the dual core optimizer and my computer works fine __________________ Intel Conroe E6300 @ 3200MHz 2x2048 of OCZ DDR2 HIS 4870 1024MB MSI P7NE 320GB SATA WD HDD 630W Enermax Volcano

August 27th, 2006	#95 (permalink)
RPGW1ZaRD PCSX2 & O/C Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: My Computer Posts: 2,840	yup, I've got daemon tools and dual core optimizer installed, no problems here either. __________________ « Feel free to browse through PCSX2 screenshots on RPGWiZaRD's Putfile.com section » Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 @ 4.0GHz «-» Gigabyte P35-DS4 «-» CellShock 2x1GB @ DDR2-1200 5-5-4-10 «-» JetWay 8800GT 512 MB @ 705/1750/1015 MHz «-» Thermaltake ToughPower 750W «-» Sony Multiscan G400 19" CRT «-» OCZ Vendetta 2 «-» Creative SoundBlaster Audigy «-» Logitech X-530 5.1 «-» Sennheiser HD 212 Pro «-» Logitech MX™518 Gaming-Grade «-» Razer Mantis Speed «-» Windows XP Pro SP3 «-» Windows Server 2k8 XSOS 3.0 BETA

August 28th, 2006	#96 (permalink)
techjunkie Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: US Posts: 73	i have the Dual Core Optimizer and the Dual Core Hotfix. My comp works great. oh and i have Daemon Tools installed. __________________ ABIT KN9 SLI Deluxe, AM2 X2 3800 OCed to 2.7 GHz, eVGA 8800GTX Liquid Cooled, OCZ Gold DDR2-800

August 28th, 2006	#97 (permalink)
Traxxx Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 275	If you think I just made this up, see sticky threads at daemon-tools forum or visit alcohol forums or AMD´s forums :P On some systems it works on others not (besides that AMD tool can have a lot of issues with other things like hibernation). On my Athlon X2 4800+ system it works (even OCing with using Cool n Quiet works flawless) with DT + Alc, on my FX60 Crossfire System it forces bluescreens. And don´t say "nope" if I tell you that deleting the AMD exe file from Autostart folder stops the bluescreens on my pc as I doubt you can proof that it´s not so :P I justed wanted to help people if they experience them same problem before they do reinstall everything __________________ CU Traxxx Homepage: http://traxxx.no-ip.org [Systems: 1x AMD Athlon FX 60, 1x AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1x Intel Core2Duo E4300, Minimum RAM 1 GB DDR, Maximum 4 GB Dual Channel DDR CL 2 @ 333 Mhz, 2x Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX (Crossfire), 1x HIS IceQ3 X1900XTX, 2xPowerColor X850XT PE, 1x His IceQ3 HD3850 Turbo SB Audigy 2 ZS, 4x DVDRW 16x Dual Layer,3x 19" CRT, 17" TFT BenQ, 4 Webcams, 64-fullsize-keys Midi-Masterkeyboard and a lot of stuff ] Last edited by Traxxx; August 28th, 2006 at 06:36..

August 28th, 2006	#98 (permalink)
Fire Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 122	good work

September 11th, 2006	#99 (permalink)
]{nIgh7]{rawl3r Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New York Posts: 2	Awsome review. Love the fact of playstation 2 is at playable speeds now. I have one question though. I am, however, not using a dual core cpu setup. I am running an Asus K8N-DL server/worksation MB with two single-core AMD Opteron 246 2.0 GHz processors at stock speed. I know little about cpu architecture like \|Gand\|Alf\|, but i am familliar with its workings and easily understand much. In theory my dual single-core-cpu system runs about same or similar to a single dual-core-cpu system at same speeds. I was wondering about your thoughts on this and if PCSX2 will treat my system the same as a dual core system seing how i literally do have 2 cores working together, just on different sockets. I have yet to actually try PCSX2 emulator on my system for i have no Playstation 2 games to try. But soon i will borrow my friend's game and give it a go.

September 11th, 2006	#100 (permalink)
RPGW1ZaRD PCSX2 & O/C Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: My Computer Posts: 2,840	Not sure how well it would work, I don't think there's any other way than to try it out to be sure. Since you brought this review up once again I just wanna say I wish I was using a program like fraps to collect the fps rates as it's much more accurate than the built in fps meter. Some places the ZeroGS meter is displaying exactly same values or close tho but sometimes it doesn't quite. __________________ « Feel free to browse through PCSX2 screenshots on RPGWiZaRD's Putfile.com section » Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 @ 4.0GHz «-» Gigabyte P35-DS4 «-» CellShock 2x1GB @ DDR2-1200 5-5-4-10 «-» JetWay 8800GT 512 MB @ 705/1750/1015 MHz «-» Thermaltake ToughPower 750W «-» Sony Multiscan G400 19" CRT «-» OCZ Vendetta 2 «-» Creative SoundBlaster Audigy «-» Logitech X-530 5.1 «-» Sennheiser HD 212 Pro «-» Logitech MX™518 Gaming-Grade «-» Razer Mantis Speed «-» Windows XP Pro SP3 «-» Windows Server 2k8 XSOS 3.0 BETA Last edited by RPGW1ZaRD; September 11th, 2006 at 21:26..