Your rig

[Bino]

A few steps back from the "bleeding edge": Intel i7-4770K running at 4.3 GHz and a GTX 980 video card...

http://kenshelby.us/docs/pc-parts

[Lusche]

Getting old but think I can get another year or so out of her with a video card upgrade.

I5 3570K @ 4.6Ghz  (...)

I wish I had anything powerful like that.   


I3-2120
12 GB Ram
cheap socket 1155 board with on board sound
HD 6850, 1GB
2 TB Maxtor Hard disk
Flatron W2361V 23" screen
X-52pro
TrackIr3Pro

[38ruk]

LD, what kind of scores do you get when you run this?

https://unigine.com/products/valley/

It only tests the GPU but it does a hell of a good job of pushing it to it's limit. I scored over 800 (don't know the exact number) with my 760. I could have probably gotten a better score but I was hitting the temp limit set on the GPU. I didn't want to turn it off and risk damaging it.

What settings are you running? I ran it in basic 5300 so im assuming its not at that setting lol.
Edit:  at extreme HD it only did 1110 @1920X1080

[Dragon Tamer]

1600x900 full screen
x8 Anti-aliasing
Ultra quality

Was going great at 30 FPS most of the time. Dropped down to about 10 FPS on scene transitions. Program crashed several times when the lightning started on scene... 15?...

[38ruk]

I wish I had anything powerful like that.   


I3-2120
12 GB Ram
cheap socket 1155 board with on board sound
HD 6850, 1GB
2 TB Maxtor Hard disk
Flatron W2361V 23" screen
X-52pro
TrackIr3Pro

lol thx . I can run 4.8Ghz stable but at a  1.35 vcore which would kill it after awhile.  At 4.6 it only needs 1.23v and stays nice and cool.  At least you have an upgrade path cpu wise.... im kinda stuck here   

[38ruk]

1600x900 full screen
x8 Anti-aliasing
Ultra quality

Was going great at 30 FPS most of the time. Dropped down to about 10 FPS on scene transitions. Program crashed several times when the lightning started on scene... 15?...

Didnt have any crashes but fps were pretty close to what you were seeing .  It's weird that it doesnt show the overclock on my cpu but even windows 7 shows it as only running at 3.4 ghz.

[mikev]

for those who are interested  this is the result from the gtx 980 ti.

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[38ruk]

for those who are interested  this is the result from the gtx 980 ti.

This is what I get at your settings. You should try the extremeHD setting , it would be interesting to see how the 980 chews through it at that level .

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[MrRiplEy[H]]

This shows well what a waste of money an i7 is for a gaming rig.

[Bino]

Across all three screens, score 1074:

http://kenshelby.us/docs/Unigine_Valley_Benchmark_1.0_20150703_0828.html

One 1920 x 1080 screen, score 2980:

http://kenshelby.us/docs/Unigine_Valley_Benchmark_1.0_20150703_0818.html

[Bizman]

I'm amazed! With the highest settings my old rig does this good a job:



Here's the test run with similar settings mikev used, they seem to be the lowest settings shown here:

[38ruk]

Across all three screens, score 1074
One 1920 x 1080 screen, score 2980:

That is impressive..... I'm thinking a 980 might be in my future.

[38ruk]

I'm amazed! With the highest settings my old rig does this good a job:
Here's the test run with similar settings mikev used, they seem to be the lowest settings shown here:

That is awesome .... you should feel like a proud papa lol

[The Fugitive]

I did mine in custom/high like most, but also in Ext HD just to see, and I didn't lose much when bumping up the detail.