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how important is AGP
I am only capable of 4x agp with a 9700 pro. If i had a mb capable of 8x,
would i see a difference in performance and framerates? Also, would going from 266(133DDR) fsb to an intel running at 800 make a big difference in performance? How important is FSB speed? Ok one more dumbass question to end the night.. I am confused.. amd boards run at 400 fsb at the moment right? and intel has one that is 800mhz fsb. does that necassarily mean the intel board is twice as fast? |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:28:00 GMT, "zlo" wrote:
I am only capable of 4x agp with a 9700 pro. If i had a mb capable of 8x, would i see a difference in performance and framerates? Hardly any. Most games will load in the textures required in the game at the start of the level, so it will have little to no difference while playing a game. -- Andrew. To email unscramble & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question. |
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On 10/21/2003 1:28 AM zlo befouled our nation with:
I am only capable of 4x agp with a 9700 pro. If i had a mb capable of 8x, would i see a difference in performance and framerates? nope, really not at all nothing different, well you might see something statistically insignificant. Also, would going from 266(133DDR) fsb to an intel running at 800 make a big difference in performance? How important is FSB speed? yep, very Ok one more dumbass question to end the night.. I am confused.. amd boards run at 400 fsb at the moment right? and intel has one that is 800mhz fsb. does that necassarily mean the intel board is twice as fast? nope Intel and AMD are both using 200 MHz FSB, its the "effective" numbers they're confusing you with, i.e. DDR and quad-pipelining multipliers. The best Intels are faster than the best AMDs right now though, and an "800 MHz" Intel board's memory will benchmark higher than a VIA or nForce2 400 MHz board by a good margin of bandwidth. But the overall performance isn't as divergent. The best bang for your buck is still the XP 2500+, which can be had for ~$80 USD. -- "I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich." Steve [Inglo] |
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zlo wrote:
I am only capable of 4x agp with a 9700 pro. If i had a mb capable of 8x, would i see a difference in performance and framerates? I doubt it. Also, would going from 266(133DDR) fsb to an intel running at 800 make a big difference in performance? How important is FSB speed? If you did that with the FSB and left all else equal, you would see an improvement. The difficulty is in saying how much... it depends how memory bandwidth limited your application is. Ok one more dumbass question to end the night.. I am confused.. amd boards run at 400 fsb at the moment right? and intel has one that is 800mhz fsb. does that necassarily mean the intel board is twice as fast? Lets straighten this out. Fastest Athlon XP FSB is 200MHz DDR, which is 400M transfers per second (tps). Fastest P4 System Bus is 200MHz Quad Pumped, which is 800M tps. Now, just because it's theoretically possible to transfer twice as much data in the same time down equivelent buses, doesn't mean that the processor is necessarily capable of that - it's not a linear relationship, the efficiency (the amount you can actually get across the bus under normal circumstances, as a proportion of the total) tends to drop off as the FSB speed approaches the clock speed. Much more important than that however, is the fact that memory bandwidth is rarely the determining factor on maximum speed in most applications. The only one I can think of, is a memory benchmark. So how much difference that doubling will make is completely dependant on the application. I could write a 10 line C program that acesses memory a few times at the start and never again, and will scale linearly with CPU clock speed, memory bandwidth won't affect the time at all. Conversely I could write a 10 line C program that scales linearly with memory bandwidth and CPU speed will be irrelevant. But neither of those applications are "typical", they would be written merely to prove a point. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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So increasing your ram on your MB would give you better performance? How
much ram is too much ram? Thanks for any info... "Ben Pope" wrote in message ... zlo wrote: I am only capable of 4x agp with a 9700 pro. If i had a mb capable of 8x, would i see a difference in performance and framerates? I doubt it. Also, would going from 266(133DDR) fsb to an intel running at 800 make a big difference in performance? How important is FSB speed? If you did that with the FSB and left all else equal, you would see an improvement. The difficulty is in saying how much... it depends how memory bandwidth limited your application is. Ok one more dumbass question to end the night.. I am confused.. amd boards run at 400 fsb at the moment right? and intel has one that is 800mhz fsb. does that necassarily mean the intel board is twice as fast? Lets straighten this out. Fastest Athlon XP FSB is 200MHz DDR, which is 400M transfers per second (tps). Fastest P4 System Bus is 200MHz Quad Pumped, which is 800M tps. Now, just because it's theoretically possible to transfer twice as much data in the same time down equivelent buses, doesn't mean that the processor is necessarily capable of that - it's not a linear relationship, the efficiency (the amount you can actually get across the bus under normal circumstances, as a proportion of the total) tends to drop off as the FSB speed approaches the clock speed. Much more important than that however, is the fact that memory bandwidth is rarely the determining factor on maximum speed in most applications. The only one I can think of, is a memory benchmark. So how much difference that doubling will make is completely dependant on the application. I could write a 10 line C program that acesses memory a few times at the start and never again, and will scale linearly with CPU clock speed, memory bandwidth won't affect the time at all. Conversely I could write a 10 line C program that scales linearly with memory bandwidth and CPU speed will be irrelevant. But neither of those applications are "typical", they would be written merely to prove a point. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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Cosmic wrote:
So increasing your ram on your MB would give you better performance? That question appears to be about quantity as opposed to speed. The answer is yes, if you need it. How much ram is too much ram? Thanks for any info... You can never have too much RAM. There's little point in purchasing more than you regularly use, however. In my opinion, most people will get away quite happily with 256MBs these days. The gamers and most developers should have 512MB. Hardcore gamers and developers should have a 1GB. Any more is rarely needed on a desktop PC. Servers tend to different in that performance can be gained all over the place with more RAM (for example, they can cache more/larger files that will be used more regularly). Thats a very simple guideline. To find peak RAM useage since you powered on... go to Task Manager - Peformance and look at Peak Commit Charge. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"Inglo" wrote in message . .. snip The best bang for your buck is still the XP 2500+, which can be had for ~$80 USD. Steve [Inglo] Is this the Barton core chip you are referring to? If so, why is this the CPU to get? I see a lot of praise about it, but I am not sure why. Right now I am running an Athlon XP 2000+ Palomino core chip on an MSI KT3-Ultra2 motherboard. Thanks Joe |
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Joe727 wrote:
Is this the Barton core chip you are referring to? If so, why is this the CPU to get? I see a lot of praise about it, but I am not sure why. I'll give you 3 good reasons: 1) Because for any given clock speed, the Barton is the fastest core. 2) That Barton is one of the fastest clocking cores available. 3) The 2500+ is the cheapest CPU with the Barton core. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"Ben Pope" wrote in message ... Joe727 wrote: Is this the Barton core chip you are referring to? If so, why is this the CPU to get? I see a lot of praise about it, but I am not sure why. I'll give you 3 good reasons: 1) Because for any given clock speed, the Barton is the fastest core. 2) That Barton is one of the fastest clocking cores available. 3) The 2500+ is the cheapest CPU with the Barton core. Good list. The main reason for #1 is CACHE. Assuming equal fsb and clock speed: The K6-3 is faster than the K6-2 because of cache. The Pentium is faster than the Celeron because of cache. The Athlon is faster than the Duron because of cache. The Barton is faster than the XP because of cache. System memory is pretty fast these days, but cache is still a lot faster. |
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Skid wrote:
Good list. The main reason for #1 is CACHE. Assuming equal fsb and clock speed: The only reason is Cache. More cache - greater hit ratio - better performance. System memory is pretty fast these days, but cache is still a lot faster. Indeed. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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