The upgrade is now complete!(Or is it?)

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-01-26 01:05pm

At long last my computer is complete, I'm yanking out the AMD 3500+ that was fomerly in my computer and replacing it with a brand new AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+.

This brings my Oblivion spec'd computer up to..

AMD 64 X2 4800
Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB(OC'd roughly 10%)
A8N-SLI
2.00 GB's of CAS 2.5 DDR 400 RAM
Creative Audigy 2 soundcard.

My old computer consistantly ran roughly 70(30 in Ironforge) FPS in WoW with everything turned on at 1600x1200. Ran 40-70 FPS in Battlefield 2 at 1280x1024. And a solid 50 FPS in BF:1942 Forgotten Hope at the same resoultion. And FEAR? FEAR was pretty but my FPS were down in the teens during any non-slowmo gunfight.

However after scraping by with a bare 4000 marks in 3Dmark2006 I decided it was finaly time to get off my rear and go dual-core.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2006-01-26 01:16pm

My opinion? Should have waited until Oblivion was released; by then prices would have come down

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-01-26 02:40pm

MKSheppard wrote:My opinion? Should have waited until Oblivion was released; by then prices would have come down

I've been waiting eight months now since it was first released 4800's were runnning 1100$. I can't wait any longer since all the price cuts happened four months ago.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-26 02:41pm

Nice, I'm expecting a similer mini upgrade for Oblivion, probebly a 4600+

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-01-26 07:25pm

What is Oblivion?

Also I'm planning on upgrading my motherboard (for PCI-E) and video card (to 7800GT) here soon... hopefully I can afford it before the "buy our video card and get our motherboard for free!" combo expires.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-01-26 08:04pm

Uraniun235 wrote:What is Oblivion?

Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Sequal to "Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind"

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-01-26 08:07pm

Was there an Elder Scrolls 1 and 2?

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-26 08:24pm

InnocentBystander wrote:Was there an Elder Scrolls 1 and 2?

Yes, Arena and Daggerfall, plus their expansions.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-01-26 08:24pm

InnocentBystander wrote:Was there an Elder Scrolls 1 and 2?

Elder Scrolls 1: Arena
Elder Scrolls 2: DaggerFall

The background info on the Elder scrolls series linky.

DaggerFall amounts to a Uber-artifact choicing the player to determine who is worthy of using it, which is who will rule. The player is told that he/she doesnt cut it

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-26 08:25pm

Mr Bean wrote:At long last my computer is complete, I'm yanking out the AMD 3500+ that was fomerly in my computer and replacing it with a brand new AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+.

This brings my Oblivion spec'd computer up to..

AMD 64 X2 4800
Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB(OC'd roughly 10%)
A8N-SLI
2.00 GB's of CAS 2.5 DDR 400 RAM
Creative Audigy 2 soundcard.

My old computer consistantly ran roughly 70(30 in Ironforge) FPS in WoW with everything turned on at 1600x1200. Ran 40-70 FPS in Battlefield 2 at 1280x1024. And a solid 50 FPS in BF:1942 Forgotten Hope at the same resoultion. And FEAR? FEAR was pretty but my FPS were down in the teens during any non-slowmo gunfight.

However after scraping by with a bare 4000 marks in 3Dmark2006 I decided it was finaly time to get off my rear and go dual-core.

How does 3DMark2006 do your new machine? I have a similar spec (with a second GTX), but I only got a score of 4600. I should be pulling over 6000, based on the benchmarks I've seen.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-01-26 08:35pm

Arrow wrote:
How does 3DMark2006 do your new machine? I have a similar spec (with a second GTX), but I only got a score of 4600. I should be pulling over 6000, based on the benchmarks I've seen.

Tweaked to high hell I only improved from 4023 marks to 4090. I've yet to run it with the 4800. Stay tuned!

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-01-26 08:48pm

Arrow wrote:
How does 3DMark2006 do your new machine? I have a similar spec (with a second GTX), but I only got a score of 4600. I should be pulling over 6000, based on the benchmarks I've seen.

Are you including your motherboard specs when comparing them to official benchmark tests? Motherboard configurations will affect your bench speeds, even if your processor, ram and graphics cards are comparable.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-26 09:03pm

General Zod wrote:
Arrow wrote:
How does 3DMark2006 do your new machine? I have a similar spec (with a second GTX), but I only got a score of 4600. I should be pulling over 6000, based on the benchmarks I've seen.
Are you including your motherboard specs when comparing them to official benchmark tests? Motherboard configurations will affect your bench speeds, even if your processor, ram and graphics cards are comparable.

Nevermind. Once I killed Steam, the fucking iPod service that Quicktime installed, and the update program for my Harmony remote, my score shot up to 7656. No changes made to the BIOS or drivers. My CPU is 4800+ on an A8N-SLI Premium, with 2GB 2-3-3-6 RAM. And this score slaughters the score Anandtech's FX-57 system put up with the same SLI-GTX256s.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-27 06:35am

Arrow wrote:Nevermind. Once I killed Steam, the fucking iPod service that Quicktime installed, and the update program for my Harmony remote, my score shot up to 7656. No changes made to the BIOS or drivers. My CPU is 4800+ on an A8N-SLI Premium, with 2GB 2-3-3-6 RAM. And this score slaughters the score Anandtech's FX-57 system put up with the same SLI-GTX256s.

And now that I think about it, I ran 3DMark06 right after I upgraded my driver, and just after I checked the Enable SLI box. Now, with the new drivers your not suppose to have to resart after enabling SLI, but I bet for some reason or another it didn't take, or 3DMark06 didn't utilitize it.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2006-01-27 09:26am

Uraniun235 wrote:What is Oblivion?

Also I'm planning on upgrading my motherboard (for PCI-E) and video card (to 7800GT) here soon... hopefully I can afford it before the "buy our video card and get our motherboard for free!" combo expires.

Damn you do not know what Oblivion is?

Yor are banned from posting in G&C, now stand in the corner and wear the shame hat!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-01-27 09:52am

I, too, have a dual-core 2.4GHz processor with 1MB cache on each core ... but for much less money

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-27 09:56am

phongn wrote:I, too, have a dual-core 2.4GHz processor with 1MB cache on each core ... but for much less money

Sad note here, I have a single core 2.2GHZ that cost me more then your Opt.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-01-27 04:34pm

Cruses! My upgrade attempts have been thwrated by a clumsy stockboy, instead of the 4800+ promised I received a 4600+! An older core means overclocking is less likley and this 4600 hates it it does. Not to mention I'm missing a MB of cachal!

In other news I pulled down 4826 with the new proccesor.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-27 04:41pm

Mr Bean wrote:Cruses! My upgrade attempts have been thwrated by a clumsy stockboy, instead of the 4800+ promised I received a 4600+! An older core means overclocking is less likley and this 4600 hates it it does. Not to mention I'm missing a MB of cachal!

It ain't an older core, it just has less cache.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-01-27 04:43pm

Ace Pace wrote:
Mr Bean wrote:Cruses! My upgrade attempts have been thwrated by a clumsy stockboy, instead of the 4800+ promised I received a 4600+! An older core means overclocking is less likley and this 4600 hates it it does. Not to mention I'm missing a MB of cachal!
It ain't an older core, it just has less cache.

It still does not like overclocking.

But I was refering to the batch-number and ref-number. I mean this is an old CPU made in the first half of 2005. The second half of the year proccesors where much nicer(Generaly) about overclocking.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-01-27 04:47pm

Faram wrote:Damn you do not know what Oblivion is?

Yor are banned from posting in G&C, now stand in the corner and wear the shame hat!

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-27 04:58pm

Mr Bean wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:
Mr Bean wrote:Cruses! My upgrade attempts have been thwrated by a clumsy stockboy, instead of the 4800+ promised I received a 4600+! An older core means overclocking is less likley and this 4600 hates it it does. Not to mention I'm missing a MB of cachal!
It ain't an older core, it just has less cache.
It still does not like overclocking.

But I was refering to the batch-number and ref-number. I mean this is an old CPU made in the first half of 2005. The second half of the year proccesors where much nicer(Generaly) about overclocking.

So far I've seen good results with the same core(3800+) so thats weird.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-01-27 11:54pm

Ace Pace wrote:
So far I've seen good results with the same core(3800+) so thats weird.

3800+s were second generation. 4200, 4600s were first run. 4400s are second run and there were a few 4800s during the second run. 3800's went to silcon a few months after that and were up to the sixth generation meaning they had plenty of time to figure out all the kinks in each run.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2006-01-28 03:43am

Uraniun235 wrote:

There there we all make mistakes, just go out and buy a copy when it comes and all will be forgiven

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-28 04:02am

Mr Bean wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:
So far I've seen good results with the same core(3800+) so thats weird.
3800+s were second generation. 4200, 4600s were first run. 4400s are second run and there were a few 4800s during the second run. 3800's went to silcon a few months after that and were up to the sixth generation meaning they had plenty of time to figure out all the kinks in each run.

Woops, you're right.

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