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Post by MoMoOrHoUsE on May 16, 2004 5:56:13 GMT -5
Ok lads heres the skinny, At the moment i have:
AMD 2500 xp Barton Core 333mhz
896 DDR memory
120 GB Maxtor HD
Asus A7V8X-X MBoard
Radeon 9600 128DDR
Its not running that fast to be honest with you, I run PCMark 04 and the scores are LOW. 2900 LOW!! Any ideas why its running so slow??
Im thinking about upgrading to:
AMD 3000+ xp Barton Core 400mhz
Over a G in pc3000 memory
DFI LanBoy MBoard (very cool and SO FAST)
Sapphire Radeon X800PRO 256MB DDR3 AGP x8 (yes thats a £300 card!!)
Please help me and give me some help with my PC!!
Thanks
Lee
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Post by Nightwalker on May 16, 2004 7:26:02 GMT -5
have you checked your CPU speed/freqency settings in your BIOS? & has there been a certain point that you have noticed it getting slow or has it always been like it? Check for spyware, and a Sasser scan knowing you  - This little baby of a virus will entirly cane your computer using CPU cycles and RAM to try and infect other machines. Let me know back on all questions above. |
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Post by MoMoOrHoUsE on May 17, 2004 8:14:39 GMT -5
No I dont have a virus, or a worm. that sasser and the sober virus's sounds nasty. Im really confused at the mo coz during games such as Far Cry my pc is fine, but during pcmark04 it flops big time! I think there might be a conflict with my mboard, gcard and my memory. Im in the middle of making a test pc so i'll tell you how it goes
lee
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Post by Nightwalker on May 17, 2004 8:17:52 GMT -5
Yeah, um, if it runs well, all is good, so as long as it does run well thats ok, I wouldnt worry about it not benchmarking correct, but yeah if it isnt really running well I wonder what it could be? let us know on that machine,
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Post by Nightwalker on May 21, 2004 4:10:53 GMT -5
How you getting on with that PC Lee?
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Post by MoMoOrHoUsE on May 25, 2004 5:52:42 GMT -5
Well ive just added a few cold cathodes around the old case and ive added a few blue fans. I bought a 550w PSU but it was DOA! As you can guess I was pissed off! It seems to be running fine at the mo, even tho my benchmark is low. Games seem to be running fine, so im still really confused!
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Post by Nightwalker on May 25, 2004 9:50:14 GMT -5
Have you tried different benchmarkins programs? I recommend Fresh Dianose. Try that one and keep us informed.
The new blue mods sound cool, u know your going right when its glowing a cold cathode blue! ;D
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Post by Pikaflu on Aug 8, 2004 13:15:08 GMT -5
Your choice for new gfx card isn't the greatest. If you aren't willing to fork out the extra for an x800xt or geforce 6800 ultra then a 6800gt is a better bet due to it having double the pipelines, and significantly better performance in open gl.
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Post by Nightwalker on Aug 8, 2004 18:38:15 GMT -5
So which GPU would u recommend at the moment?
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Post by Pikaflu on Aug 9, 2004 5:14:37 GMT -5
Well, atm I'd reccomend the BFG Geforce 6800 GT OC.
I did about 2 weeks of research before i plumped up the cash and bought this puppy. It comes overclocked out of the box, has a lifetime warantee and pretty much all the gt's can be pushed to ultra speeds quite comfortably (saving you £100 or more). Ati's equivelant the x800pro is a crippled card, with half it's rendering pipelines disabled. It is pretty easy to soft mod the card and run it at xt speeds, but obviously this invalidates the warantee. Originaly I had a radeon x800xt on order, but after doing research i cancelled this order and am now waiting for my gt (should arrive on saturday). Basically the geforce cards are a little more future proof from what I have read. Firstly they support shader model 3.0, which originally I thought would not make too much of a difference, until it became announced that big games such as far cry hl2 and stalker would be utilising this technology, which the current flagship ati cards do not have. The ati card does perform better with high levels of anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, but when you can run games smoothly @ 1600x1200 this really doesnt mean too much. If you are considering a PCI-express system, then the 6800gt is the ultimate choice. When nvidia launch their SLi technology you could buy a second gt and run the 2 in parallel for some godlike performance.
My advice is to disregard the x800pro unless you are happy to invalidate your warantee. Then you have to choose between a 6800gt/6800u/x800xt.
The 6800ultra has some downsides. Firstly it is huge, secondly it requires 2 molex power connections, and it requires a very good psu, also it is massively expensive. The x800xt will probably have better performance in hl2 due to valve having used ati technology in the dev proccess, this is also true of the nvidia cards in doom3 (but also because the nvidia cards manage opengl alot better than the ati's).
Really though all of the next gen cards are at least double the speed of last generation cards (radeon 9800xt's geforce fx5950) , so whatever you get you will get massively impressive framerates coupled with superior image quality.
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Post by Pikaflu on Aug 9, 2004 5:18:05 GMT -5
Another thing. 32bit athlons are a bit poo, dig in your pockets and get an athlon 64 or an 800fsb p4. If you go p4 atm the sweet spot is 3.2ghz, it balances almost top of the line performance with a decent price. As for the athlon 64's i don't know much, so you'd be better of asking someone else.
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- This little baby of a virus will entirly cane your computer using CPU cycles and RAM to try and infect other machines. Let me know back on all questions above.
