To those who do decide to participate, can you post the links to your results pages? They have a lot more specific info.

Thanx.

Plus: Any problems with MSFS?

Edited August 12, 20214 yr by HiFlyer

19 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

To those who do decide to participate, can you post the links to your results pages? They have a lot more specific info.

Thanx.

Plus: Any problems with MSFS?

Here's mine.  https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/45384473

I have had some CTD problems since SU5 like many others.

Edited August 12, 20214 yr by Ixoye

11 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

We may mean different things. When I say bottleneck, for me it's anywhere I fall significantly below other identical components in performance.

For instance, my 2080ti has a high score, but apparently could be much better. What am I missing?

My nvme is significantly underperforming compared to the same one on other peoples systems. Why? (I actually just transferred my packages/community folder to my fastest ssd, and loading times have now very noticeably improved)

Some of my non-SSD drives are seriously underperforming, apparently. I'm taking a closer look at them.

Etc.

Turn off G-Sync in Nvidia Control Panel before running that test, or the graphics performance will be artificially low. 

3 minutes ago, Republic3D said:

Turn off G-Sync in Nvidia Control Panel before running that test, or the graphics performance will be artificially low. 

Thank you. I've actually noticed that and run the test quite a few times using various combinations of turning things on and off. One frightening thing I did notice, was that when I turned g-sync off, the Sim was sometimes exceeding 900 frames per second on some of the loading screens.

That has apparently been a source of issues and even dead graphics cards on another game, so I'm glad g-sync is keeping the frame rates down to sane levels on loading and directory screens.

Userbenchmark can be interesting, but they're known to artificially lower scores on AMD hardware vs Intel hardware when comparing CPU vs CPU.

Another thing is that if you have G-Sync on, the graphics test will limit FPS to whatever your refresh rate is set at. And you will get a lower score. 

A bad score on an M.2 drive can be because it overheats. If it sits behind a GPU or close to other hot components, it will work just fine - but after a few seconds of use it will throttle itself. You won't notice it in day to day use, but if you keep moving large files you will notice it. 

Edited August 12, 20214 yr by Republic3D

1 minute ago, HiFlyer said:

Thank you. I've actually noticed that and run the test quite a few times using various combinations of turning things on and off. One frightening thing I did notice, was that when I turned g-sync off, the Sim was sometimes exceeding 900 frames per second on some of the loading screens.

That has apparently been a source of issues and even dead graphics cards on another game, so I'm glad g-sync is keeping the frame rates down to sane levels on loading and directory screens.

Haha yes, I've seen that too. It's the same GPU runaway situation that happened with that Amazon game and some EVGA cards were bricked. A bit concerning actually. 

10 minutes ago, Republic3D said:

A bad score on an M.2 drive can be because it overheats. If it sits behind a GPU or close to other hot components, it will work just fine - but after a few seconds of use it will throttle itself. You won't notice it in day to day use, but if you keep moving large files you will notice it. 

And I probably never would have noticed it if I hadn't taken this test. The low score prompted me to do some Diagnostics on the drive, and that alerted me to the fact that it's overheating. My next step is to look into heat sinks and see if that might help.

3 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

And I probably never would have noticed it if I hadn't taken this test. The low score prompted me to do some Diagnostics on the drive, and that alerted me to the fact that it's overheating. My next step is to look into heat sinks and see if that might help.

Yep. Can be a very useful test. 

What kind of M.2 drive do you have? If it's a Samsung like your other SSDs, you can use Samsung Magician to benchmark your drives and update the drivers and such. It works on almost all Samsung drives, except a very few M.2s.

Edited August 12, 20214 yr by Republic3D

5 minutes ago, Republic3D said:

Yep. Can be a very useful test. 

What kind of M.2 drive do you have? If it's a Samsung like your other SSDs, you can use Samsung Magician to benchmark your drives and update the drivers and such. It works on almost all Samsung drives, except a very few M.2s.

Because of Samsung Magician, and because the Samsung drives seem to be of good quality and reliability, I've been sticking only to those.