Fallout New Vegas Gameplay

I have been playing Fallout New Vegas on my rebuilt system and found no lag at 1080p Ultra High settings.  I installed Fraps to get an idea of my frame-rate versus the laptop (2.4Ghz Dual-core with 6GB of RAM without discrete graphics) that I was using before.

I was averaging about 20 FPS on the laptop on Low settings at 720p.  With the new system, I am averaging around 60 FPS during gameplay and noticed a few times that it dipped to 20 FPS for a very short time.

Overall though, the game is much more playable.  I realize that this is an older game, I may try to get results from demos of newer games to get some better (or current) benchmarks on the A8-5600K APU.

TimmyTechTV Unboxing of MSI FM2-A75MA-E35

Here is TimmyTechTV's YouTube unboxing and overview of the motherboard that I used in my home PC rebuild.  I should have done this myself, but I did not get the time to do the unboxing and I found this video that is a good overview of the board and what comes with it in the box.

TimmyTechTV Unboxing

I have watched some of his other videos as well and encourage people to subscribe to his channel.

New vs Old Components

Those of you that have been reading this blog know that I recently replaced the motherboard, 2.8Ghz Dual-core Pentium, and 2GB of DDR2 RAM in my old Gateway GT5404 with an MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 board, 3.6Ghz Quad-core AMD A8-5600K APU, and 8GB of G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1866 RAM.

I had run Cinebench and the Window Experience ratings on the system before and after the upgrade.

For Cinebench the old CPU score 0.79 and OpenGL would not even run.

The Windows Experience had the following scores:

Processor                   4.6
RAM                          5.3
Graphics                     3.3
Gaming Graphics         3.3
Primary Hard Disk      5.9

The new system shows 2.44 for the CPU on Cinebench and 33.46fps on the OpenGL test.

The Windows Experience scores for the new components were:

Processor                   7.2
RAM                          7.3
Graphics                     6.8
Gaming Graphics         6.8
Primary Hard Disk      5.9

I am not surprised that there was no chance with the drive, as I am temporarily continuing to use the hard-drive from the original system configuration.

I am in the process of porting my lone Steam title (Fallout New Vegas) from the laptop to see how it runs on the new configuration.  So far, I am pretty impressed with the speed that the system is showing to have at this time.  I know that the numbers above will not compete with a lot of systems, but I was trying to build this on a budget and for what I spent, I am pretty happy with the results so far.