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...Before my new ATHLON 2600+ tower of DOOM, with 512 MB of ram,
MSI GeForce 5600 with 256 MB VRAM, and a 40 GB HDD.....all put together
for about $600~

Goddamn this comp is ace.

It actually plays fucking CMAK in anti aliasing without those god
damn bugs.

no body else has figured a way around the GeForce Antialiasing bug:

after 30.22 Detonators, when you use anti aliasing
it makes the text in CMBB/CMAK disappear.

To fix, you must alt tab out then back. I don't got that problem

All hail my dreadnought of doom!

*salvo fires into Einy's ratbox, sinking it in a violent magazine explosion*

And this replaces a Pentium II 450 Ratbox, so I say I got a great deal 8)
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Nice :)

But for a real killer-machine, you should have bought better equipment :D
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Dahak wrote: But for a real killer-machine, you should have bought better equipment :D
I went in with about $500~ and a credit card. I don't need to spend $300
on a damn video card :P
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MKSheppard wrote:
Dahak wrote: But for a real killer-machine, you should have bought better equipment :D
I went in with about $500~ and a credit card. I don't need to spend $300
on a damn video card :P
300 is cheap for a video card :D
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I bought slightly better stuff for $1200 half a year ago. Now I'm upgrading.

Good deal, Shep.
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Phong says that MIPS and other stuff is worthless. I disagree, as
I like having numbers on the specific output of my computer's
subsystems, rather than some bullshit composite number that
keeps changing the method of how it's calculated each year (3DMark)
Athlon 2600+ wrote: CPU Integer 5803.438 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 2400.354 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 238.1401 MPixels/s
Direct3D 49.17014 MPixels/s
OpenGL 24.55336 MPixels/s
Memory 3183.217 MB/s
Cached Disk 1046.004 MB/s
Uncached Disk 4.803997 MB/s
Dell Pentium 1.4 Ghz I'm writing on now wrote: CPU Integer 2559.042 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 826.376 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 118.6579 MPixels/s
Direct3D 383.4317 MPixels/s
OpenGL 24.5316 MPixels/s
Memory 3228.344 MB/s
Cached Disk 518.5172 MB/s
Uncached Disk 1.38376 MB/s
the D3d number seems to be a bug to me...
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MIPS is worthless if you compare different architectures (arguably, even between a Willamette P4 and a Northwood P4). All it measures is instructions/second, but differerent architectures dispatch different number of instructions for a given program.

Your bandwidth numbers for the P4 are...odd. You have to be using RDRAM to be getting that kind of performance on an early Pentium IV. The FLOPS numbers look about right, because the FPU on a P4 was intentionally weak (to force developers to use SSE instructions).
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phongn wrote:MIPS is worthless if you compare different architectures (arguably, even between a Willamette P4 and a Northwood P4). All it measures is instructions/second, but differerent architectures dispatch different number of instructions for a given program.
More instructions/second = better performance. I tend to think of it
as horsepower ratings, to give you a general idea of power, although
the car tranny might not be capable of handling it all...etc.
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MKSheppard wrote:More instructions/second = better performance. I tend to think of it
as horsepower ratings, to give you a general idea of power, although
the car tranny might not be capable of handling it all...etc.
No, because the definition of horsepower is constant across all vehicles. What an instruction does is not constant across all architectures.

For example, a PowerPC 604e might run at 1200 MIPS to perform an operation in ten seconds. A Pentium II might run the same operation in ten seconds, yet only be running at 600 MIPS. From the straight numbers, one might expect the PPC to be twice as fast as the P2, when it most certainly is not.
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Behold my Radeon 9700, and let your geforce beware :P


till it gets back from fixing :cry:
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I also have a Radeon 9700.

Mine also is in the shop. :(
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None of you are old men with budgets, so I won't make you feel inadequate with my giant Radeon 9800 XT-backed 2-gig of RAM-equipped monstrosity-of-over-3-GHZ-of-P4-power Penis Compensation Device. :twisted:
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No, we must all cower before Einy's future super dreadnought quad
Athlon 2600+ XPs, with quad Radeon 9700s all tied together under
W2K, and 4 GB of RAM and 200 GB HDD Space :shock:
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