FFXI Bench 2 Score / Specs

[Vairu]

i see, but AF does?

[GSDragoon]

Not sure about AF. My guess it that it would work.

[Vairu]

that's cool i have to try fastwrite though...

[essiesse]

Hello I have a Geforce4 FX 5600 XT and I was thinking on buying a new graphics card to boost my performance. I have 4200 in old bench and in bench 2 i have 3250-LOW and 2250-HIGH, are these scores any good to play ffxi?

I was thinking on a ATI Radeon 9800 pro or a GeForce FX 5900 XT.
Would these cards greatly increase my bench? is fx5600 xt any good to play ffxi?

I have a:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
2,00 GHz
512MB RAM
Geforce4 FX 5600 XT

Can anyone help me? Thanks

[GSDragoon]

The 9800 pro would be better.

[essiesse]

The 9800 is a bit too expensive...is the 9600 pro good? is it better than the FX 5600 XT ?

[Thadeus]

New Benchmark:
Low:2900
High: 2650

System Specs:
P41.6
512MB ram
Radeon 9600XT

[Vivi the Mage]

Low : 3000
High : 1500

AMD Athlon 2.5+
Geforce fx5200 128mb
512 mb RAM

[tomz]

Re: FFXI Bench 2 Score / Specs

Originally posted by Fire
Allrighty, heres the link if u dont have it.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/benchmark_02.html

Figured Better to start new thread for Bench2 so the scores aren't confused.

I myself got a 1618 with norton, zone alarm, msn, and winamp running after the comp was on for 5 hours. The i rebooted and did it with nothing on and got an average of 1606......

Amd Athlon 2400 2.0ghz
GeForce FX5200 128mb
Min Req 128mb ddr sdram
40Gb HD

Any one else notice Square has a Tarutaru Fetish?

on my spare pc I have following specs

Celeron II 1.1A @ 1.43Ghz (130/130/33)
512 MB PC100
Win2k
20gb 5400rpm
Geforce4 Ti4400 non OC

High res 2500
low res 2510

[Ramen]

Laptop
=====
Celeron 1.4GHz
256MB PC2100
Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB.

Low = 2220
High = Not even gonna try


Desktop:
======
AMD Mobile Barton 2400+ @ 2.5GHz
1GB PC2700 @ 200MHz [CAS 2.0-2-2-11]
Radeon 9700 Pro @ 355/339
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160GB

Low = never tried
High = 6201

FFXI Benchmark is CPU bottlenecked FYI

[tomz]

Originally posted by Ramen
Laptop
=====
Celeron 1.4GHz
256MB PC2100
Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB.

Low = 2220
High = Not even gonna try


Desktop:
======
AMD Mobile Barton 2400+ @ 2.5GHz
1GB PC2700 @ 200MHz [CAS 2.0-2-2-11]
Radeon 9700 Pro @ 355/339
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160GB

Low = never tried
High = 6201

FFXI Benchmark is CPU bottlenecked FYI

Why don't you try it? To me, there isn't much difference in high and low... look at my scores in both... only differ by 10.

[Ramen]

Originally posted by tomz



Why don't you try it? To me, there isn't much difference in high and low... look at my scores in both... only differ by 10.

There isn't difference in your system because you are CPU Bottlenecked. When you get the same performance in all resolutions it is a sign of this. Think of it as your CPU is "holding back" the score. Your graphics card is a good performer for this game, whereas your CPU is not. As you increase your CPU speed you will come to a point where your CPU isn't the bottleneck anymore, but rather it is the graphics card.

I know that my Laptop Mobility Radeon does not get decent performance at anything higher than minimum settings. I just ran the Benchmark, and on High I got 1462. I know that I am GPU limited in both low and high resolution, but not much I can do about that.

[essiesse]

Hello, I upgraded my PC

Previous:

Athlon XP 2400
Geforce FX 5600 XT
512 DDR Ram

New:

Athlon XP 3200
Powercolor Radeon 9600 pro 256mb
512 DDR Ram

my bench with the new PC is 4000-LOW 2900-HIGH. I think that´s kind of low for the pc i have...is anything slowing me down? it only went from 3200 to 4000 in low. I was expecting a better performance since i upgraded the CPU and graphics card...can anyone help me here? thanks

[Ramen]

essiesse, I think those scores are about right. The graphics card upgrade is relatively minor at best. The FX5600 line is pretty much on par with the 9600 lines performance. (5600XT/9600, 5600/9600Pro, 5600U/9600XT). As long as you have a decent graphics card, FFXI bench on low will be CPU bottlenecked. The fact that your new processor scores 4000~ shows this. It is very likely that at this point your score is video card bottlenecked. Also, make sure that you do not have AA/AF enabled in the control panel. I dont think AA works in FFXI anyways..

I'd also like to throw in that there is a common misconception that having 256MB of RAM on a graphics card will make it very fast. This is not true. It very well could be the opposite. All the memory does not come into play unless you use the highest resolutions, (1600x1200+), and the highest AA modes. Those resolutions and AA modes can make the best cards out today choke. Having 256MB on a card like the 5200/5600/5700/9500/9600 is a complete waste because these cards lack the power to game at these modes. It is purely marketing. What companies may do is use slower, cheaper memory modules on graphics boards to make the quantity larger. This means that performance can even be slower compared to a "normal" 9600Pro with 128MB because a 256MB version may be using slower memory. As a general rule of thumb, 256MB is overkill if you do not have a video card that costs over $300 US.

In summary, your low rez scores increased because you got rid of the CPU bottleneck. The reason it is only staying around 4000 in low resolution is because you are now Video card limited. Your high resolution scores are relatively the same because the 9600 is an insignifigant upgrade from a 5600. It is more like jumping to an equivalent card of the opposite company., (ATI vs NVidia). Make sure you have AA/AF disabled in the control panel as well. Also check to see if you have the latest mobo/vid drivers

[essiesse]

thx a lot man sorry for posting that in 2 diferent places. yeah this graphics card is temporary. I'll be getting a 9800XT in a couple of weeks when the prices come down because of the new graphics cards. also i tried with 512+256 ram and the score went up almost to the 5000-Low i think