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New toy - Vareal - 05-31-2013
15" Macbook Pro with Retina Display
Quad Core i7 @ 2.6GHz
512gig Solid State Hard Drive
16gig DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GT 650m w/ 1gig GDDR5
Installed Windows 7 and, of course, ran the ARR benchmark. Now it may say "fairly high" but it ran smooth as butter and looks absolutely fantastic on this Retina Display!
![[Image: benchmarkscore.jpg]](http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/4919/benchmarkscore.jpg)
RE: New toy - Ryanti - 05-31-2013
(05-31-2013, 03:25 AM)Vareal Wrote: 15" Macbook Pro with Retina Display
Quad Core i7 @ 2.6GHz
512gig Solid State Hard Drive
16gig DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GT 650m w/ 1gig GDDR5
Installed Windows 7 and, of course, ran the ARR benchmark. Now it may say "fairly high" but it ran smooth as butter and looks absolutely fantastic on this Retina Display!
I think those Benchmarks are extra cruel, considering that a result like that usually means unless you're PvP'ing with 300 people, it'll run just fine.
RE: New toy - Vareal - 05-31-2013
I understand that, believe me. However, this computer survived a few other benchmarks that were more...harsh. lol
And I won't be running the game at 1920x1080. A lower resolution that I've yet to pick and windowed. In ran even better than the above test @720 on maximum.
RE: New toy - Ryanti - 05-31-2013
Oh, I was saying your computer was fine.
Probably even if you did run it on that res. I'm fairly sure.But perhaps it would be better to run it on a lower res. That and it being windowed will equal a huge boost in performance.
Though I wonder why you have 16 gigs of RAM? I believe anything over 8 would be a bit overkill.
RE: New toy - Vareal - 05-31-2013
(05-31-2013, 03:51 AM)Ryanti Wrote: Though I wonder why you have 16 gigs of RAM? I believe anything over 8 would be a bit overkill.
I work as an editor/Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) in the film industry, so the more RAM the merrier.
