NVidia nTune

[thisgeek]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.00.06.06.html

Tuning utility for nforce chipsets.

It's a system tuning utility - it can automatically over clock / analyse your system for best performance. It also offers manual tuning.

I let it run a coarse tuning on my system (+/- 20 mins) and it boosted the system FSB by 14% from 201Mhz to 230Mhz. It also boosted the PCIe bus by 11% from 2575Mhz to 2875Mhz.

If you allow it to 'fine tune' your system (for 3 hours), it looks like it will also tweak your GPU settings as well, and possibly memory timings.

The hassle is that you will have to baby sit your system while it's doing the tuning so that you can reboot / relogin if it hangs or restarts your system.

[thisgeek]

Well, it's definitely made a different to the CPU performance:

Sisoft Sandra:

Cpu Arithmetic:

Before:
Dhrystone ALU 9204 MIPS
Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 3135/4094 MFLOPS

After:
Dhrystone ALU 9417 MIPS
Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 3211/4189 MFLOPS

Multimedia Benchmark:

Before:
Integer x4 aEMMX/aSSE 18955 it/s
Floating-Point iSSE2 20378 it/s

After:
Integer x4 aEMMX/aSSE 19411 it/s
Floating-Point iSSE2 20876 it/s

[stoke]

Nice.
Franks TG.

[FeralBanana]

Frank you, but it don't work wiff me card for some reason

(before you ask, yes, it is a nVidia card ;))

[Ruslan74]

but how much does all that tweaking affect games in reality? 1-2 FPS?

i found newer video/mobo drivers to make the best performance gains lately.

[FeralBanana]

You can always upgrade your computer ;)

Which I REALLY need to do... ;)

[Ruslan74]

or get a Xbox 360 for a cheaper price... :p

[FeralBanana]

Yeah, but can it run Battlefield? Oblivion?

Oh wait, you say it CAN?

Oops... ;) :p

:D

[sss]

the new geforce drivers game me about 700 more 3dmarks

[Ruslan74]

Yeah, but can it run Battlefield? Oblivion?

Oh wait, you say it CAN?

Oops... ;) :p

:D


yeah, it can run all that and more with less hassles and more detail... ;)

[FeralBanana]

lol...

You trying to get me off my computer and onto the TV?

I love my comp and wouldn't give it up... except for a new one ;)

[rainynight65]

Wait wait wait. Maybe Oblivion, but BF2 is not on the X-Box (let's not count that sorry excuse called Modern Combat). And GW definitely doesn't run on the X360... :D

[Ruslan74]

hehehe... you can use your current LCD/CRT monitor to use it anyhow... ;)

yeah, BF:MC is a joke by the way! but i played the demo without much lag on EU servers! :p

[FeralBanana]

lol..

[thisgeek]

It's for nForce Motherboards, not for GFX cards.

I eventually disabled the overclocking - my sound card was NOT happy with the faster bus. Ended up giving me all sorts of squeaks and pops in-game.

[FeralBanana]

Ohh... my bad ;)

I don't know what motherboard I have... 0_o

[Ruslan74]

no TG... that was the sonic boom coming out from your overclocked soundcard! :D