your RIG

ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

EVGA 01G-P3-1373-AR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) Superclocked EE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16

COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus RS700-PCAAE3-US 700W ATX 12V v2.3 Active PFC Power Supply

Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL

LG Black 10X Blu-ray Burner - Bulk SATA WH10LS30 LightScribe Support - OEM

SAMSUNG S24A350H ToC Rose Black 24" 2ms Full HD HDMI LED BackLight LCD Monitor 250

COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower

Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard

M-Audio bx8a's with BS10s

Focusrite Pro 14 sound "card"

My Razer mouse just died Now I have no grenade buttons.

If you guys don't mind, can you post what your average ping on FF is and what city/state you live in. I am curious to compare the rigs and locations to the pings.

Thanks,

-- dreed

To the BFBC2 server is about 15ms, to CoD4 server is about 40-50.

I live in Laurens, South Carolina, USA.

Well BFBC2 adds 100ms during gameplay automatically as part of a system that seeks to make gameplay "equal" amongst all players at all times. Their system does not work in my opinion. I.E. During gameplay your ping will show approximately 100 higher than when you signed in.

Also, BFBC2 offers no "console" as Call of Duty does. They instead offer a proprietary gameplay experience that is not easily discoverable by the end user. There is no way to show your FPS to yourself other than a third party application such as Fraps (which of course taints any impartial results).

To see your supposed FPS in BFBC2 use a 3rd party application such as Fraps.

I thought ping and FPS where two different things?

What I am curious about is how do I get a 50-60 ping in the game when mine is usually around 200. If I go one on one with someone with a ping around 50-70 I don't stand a chance. Can I lower my "BFBC2 ping" by building a faster computer?

-- dreed

Right on Noodles.

A new build *might* help with ping.

There is a lot of debate about efficacy of "gaming" network cards , but the theory is that a better network card will give more consistent ping and the quality of the circuit paths results in faster ping as well. In the case of gaming NICs, a lot of the network stuff your processor usually handles is offloaded to a dedicated processor on the card. The point is that a superior network card, whether onboard or off, should help somewhat with ping.

Another element in ping count is extra stuff clogging up your bandwidth, such torrenting while you play, program updates while you play, anything that access the network. In the modern world that is just about everything on your computer

And yet another is firewalls and anti-virus programs. If you have a firewall running on the box, then you go through a router which acts as another firewall, and all your packets are being examined by your anti-virus, there are many opportunities for latency to be introduced.

I don't know about gaming routers.