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Will my pc run games ok?
Ok im building a pc very soon. My specs will be:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice (O/C’d to 3500+ or 3800+ if i can) HIS x800GT IceQ Turbo II (O/C’d also) MS7125 - MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 2x 512MB PC3200 DDR-400 (Dont know what brand yet) 160GB SATAII 8M 7200RPM+ (Also dont know what brand) What FPS will i get out of this system for BF2 at high settings. Also any other comments you want to add will be very helpful as i have only had Intels before. -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/Home-B...pict63232.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=317783 |
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On 7 Oct 2005 13:36:47 -0400, Reaper
wrote: Ok im building a pc very soon. My specs will be: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice (O/C’d to 3500+ or 3800+ if i can) HIS x800GT IceQ Turbo II (O/C’d also) MS7125 - MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 2x 512MB PC3200 DDR-400 (Dont know what brand yet) 160GB SATAII 8M 7200RPM+ (Also dont know what brand) What FPS will i get out of this system for BF2 at high settings. Also any other comments you want to add will be very helpful as i have only had Intels before. Too many variables to precisely predict. yes it'll run fine, but "high settings' on one game is a rather arbitrary goal and isn't all that relevant to the longer term. Personally I think it will be a nice system but you might consider more than 1GB of memory, that given the rest of the system the amount of memory will be a bottleneck. Likewise it might benefit from two drives, not necessarily RAIDed but rather, dedicating first partition on each to 1) OS and 2) Games should help the performance of both, the games far more in load times than anything else. |
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It's really hard to predict what any one system will do at any one
time. What works great on one game, may not on another. Just look at the Nvidia numbers compared to ATI on Doom3 as an example. Trying to find a nice all around combination is the key. Unless you play Doom3. It sounds like a winner, but I'd add another gig of RAM. RAM's cheap these days. You don't have to go with real expensive RAM, you'll only see a 2 to 3% gain. It's not worth the money. I agree with the first poster: You should use a separate drive for your games. I run a dual RAID 1 setup and one of the two, is strictly for games and music. If you have two drives of different sizes, use your biggest one for your game/ music drive. You won't believe how fast 80 gigs can get eaten. And that's if your NOT a nut about it! My "Call to Duty" game is 2 gigs all by itself and will soon get much larger as soon as the new version comes out next month. I have three other games that combined, take another 14 gigs of space. That's 16 gigs of space with only 4 games. See what I mean? It doesn't take long to fill it up. Games are very large and take a lot of disk space. My music files are direct rips from my CD's, not MP-3s, so they're quite large as well. If they're kept on a separate drive, the defrags will hold up much longer and the games won't muck up your main Windows drive either. It makes quite a difference. Especially to your main drive. A fragged drive is a slow drive, no matter what it is. You can also buy a very large disk and partition it as two drives. This will help the frag issue, but would put your games in the center tracks of the disk. That's the slowest area, because the inner tracks are much shorter in length then the outer tracks. Two drives is the ideal setup. Also, about SATA II: SATA II is really a server technology. It works great with huge databases like your medical insurance company would use, or my web server would use. But for normal home use, the overhead far outweighs any gain and it runs much slower then "advertised." (there's something new, LOL) I'd stick with SATA I if you can. This may change your mobo choice, so I'd do some google research on it before you spend any money. For hard drives, I would recommend picking up a pair of Maxtor Diamond Max 9 SATA I hard drives. They have liquid bearings and are so quiet, you can't hear them. They're probably in the top echolon of performance. Performance has a price however; heat. You must use direct cooling on the Maxtors, so make sure your case has a fan mount in front of them. Best of luck |
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"" wrote:
It's really hard to predict what any one system will do at any one time. What works great on one game, may not on another. Just look at the Nvidia numbers compared to ATI on Doom3 as an example. Trying to find a nice all around combination is the key. Unless you play Doom3. It sounds like a winner, but I'd add another gig of RAM. RAM's cheap these days. You don't have to go with real expensive RAM, you'll only see a 2 to 3% gain. It's not worth the money. I agree with the first poster: You should use a separate drive for your games. I run a dual RAID 1 setup and one of the two, is strictly for games and music. If you have two drives of different sizes, use your biggest one for your game/ music drive. You won't believe how fast 80 gigs can get eaten. And that's if your NOT a nut about it! My "Call to Duty" game is 2 gigs all by itself and will soon get much larger as soon as the new version comes out next month. I have three other games that combined, take another 14 gigs of space. That's 16 gigs of space with only 4 games. See what I mean? It doesn't take long to fill it up. Games are very large and take a lot of disk space. My music files are direct rips from my CD's, not MP-3s, so they're quite large as well. If they're kept on a separate drive, the defrags will hold up much longer and the games won't muck up your main Windows drive either. It makes quite a difference. Especially to your main drive. A fragged drive is a slow drive, no matter what it is. You can also buy a very large disk and partition it as two drives. This will help the frag issue, but would put your games in the center tracks of the disk. That's the slowest area, because the inner tracks are much shorter in length then the outer tracks. Two drives is the ideal setup. Also, about SATA II: SATA II is really a server technology. It works great with huge databases like your medical insurance company would use, or my web server would use. But for normal home use, the overhead far outweighs any gain and it runs much slower then "advertised." (there's something new, LOL) I'd stick with SATA I if you can. This may change your mobo choice, so I'd do some google research on it before you spend any money. For hard drives, I would recommend picking up a pair of Maxtor Diamond Max 9 SATA I hard drives. They have liquid bearings and are so quiet, you can't hear them. They're probably in the top echolon of performance. Performance has a price however; heat. You must use direct cooling on the Maxtors, so make sure your case has a fan mount in front of them. Best of luck Thanks for your posts. They are very helpfull. I may change my motherboard now as you have said about SATAII. Also im going to have a look at 2 harddrives. -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/Home-B...pict63232.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=318050 |
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