Like others, I have been following the Passmark thread with interest. I have thankfully managed to avoid the envy Dep and agree with Strider that so long as IL2 runs smooth and looks good then I am happy.
Then Fraps was raised. I think this is a great tool and has provided me with a "Black Death" benchmark for "frames per second" for ages. A couple of days ago someone put some specs up on the UBI forum so I did some more comprehensive testing using Fraps and came up with these results.
I have
XP Service Pack 3
E6850 3000 dual core cpu
PNY Nvidia 8800GTX gpu
2gig Corsair RAM
22" LG running at 1680 x 1050
IL2 graphics are "....88XX...." in the game video setup and "Perfect"
(AF=Anisotropic filtering, AA=Antialiasing, Supersampling was set throughout)
Fraps was started at 3 seconds and finished at 2 minutes 31, v-sync off
Figures are FPS Min,