Intel i7 OC to 3,33Gz fps test: Il2 full mods vs RoF

[Thunderbolt56]

I've been running IL2 and RoF on my new rig for the last 4 months and the i7 is definitely a racehorse.

Here are my specs:

Asus P6T Deluxe V2
i7 920 @ 3.8ghz (Thermalright TRUE Copper HSF)
6GB Corsair Dominator @ 1523mhz
XFX GTX285 Black Edition
X-Fi Titanium Champion Fatal1ty
VRaptor 300GB (boot sector)
Seagate 500GB (data/games)
Vista Home Premium x64

I run the following settings in IL2 by default:

1920x1200
8xAA, 16xAF
Perfect landscape, water = 4
Forest = 2
Effects = 2
3D gunners = on


At these settings, with Vsync on, I maintain 60fps mmore than 90% of the time. Like Tuckie, there are a few specific time in The Blackdeath track where is slows into the low 30's and in the Kamikaze track it slows to about the same for approximately 5 seconds (repeatable).

In online scenarios, I've never seen it go below 40fps and still remains pegged at 59-60 fps almost all the time with the above settings and everything else turned on too.

In RoF I run it with Vsync off and frames usually stay in the mid 70's at equally high settings (1920x1200, full screen, 4xAA, 4xAF).
I have everything maxed out in the settings tab with the following exceptions:

1. I have lanscape set to "med" instead of high as there really isn't much difference and the marginal increase in detail isn't worth the performance hit IMO.

2. I have all post effects turned off for now. I can turn them on (and have obviously) but again, some are annoying while trying to fly online and they come at a performance cost that isn't worth it to me.

I wasn't building this machine for BoB, I built simply because I wanted too and had the ability to do at the time. I still intend to upgrade the GPU sometime in the next 2 months (waiting on NV's reply to the 5xxx series from ATI) and will have a great upgrade path in the 1366 socket with the 6 core i9 next Spring.

I'm extremely happy with my new machine.