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I ordered that for general use + oblivion and older games like farcry and enemy territory that play perfectly fine on both my 754 a64 and barton athlon xp machines.
I've never been the sort of person to care about benchmarks or brand names or rigs in general, my attitude is if it gets the job done then that is all that's relevant but I think I went too far this time.
Oblivion is one thing but I play farcry with everything tweaked to the highest max at 1240x1024 on a OC'ed barton athlon xp 2500+ at 2.2ghz with 1GB cas 2.3.2.5 PC3200 ram on a nForce 2 board with a Radeon 9700 pro and still get 30 fps.
I think when it comes to computer hardware most people have more than they think they need or can make use of and when things slow down it's for other reasons. I've worked on thousands of comps over the many years and two computers with the same hardware scarcly ever perform exactly the same, it's a entire system of components. I hate it here when somebody talks about upgrading, gives his specs and everyone just says "Oh well your comp is junk, you need to build a new one"
Give me a palamino core athlon or a williamete core p4 and with the right peripherials I would guarantee you that I'll run doom 3 1024x768. That's how it works. Any one system component is useless without the support of another, chemistry is the key to a fast computer, is the key to latency and stability.
... And I still think that dude in the other forum that people here have building a computer he doesn't even need really just needs a $17 PCI gfx card to free up cpu resources from his crappy onboard gfx.
/end ramble
I ordered that for general use + oblivion and older games like farcry and enemy territory that play perfectly fine on both my 754 a64 and barton athlon xp machines.
I've never been the sort of person to care about benchmarks or brand names or rigs in general, my attitude is if it gets the job done then that is all that's relevant but I think I went too far this time.
Oblivion is one thing but I play farcry with everything tweaked to the highest max at 1240x1024 on a OC'ed barton athlon xp 2500+ at 2.2ghz with 1GB cas 2.3.2.5 PC3200 ram on a nForce 2 board with a Radeon 9700 pro and still get 30 fps.
I think when it comes to computer hardware most people have more than they think they need or can make use of and when things slow down it's for other reasons. I've worked on thousands of comps over the many years and two computers with the same hardware scarcly ever perform exactly the same, it's a entire system of components. I hate it here when somebody talks about upgrading, gives his specs and everyone just says "Oh well your comp is junk, you need to build a new one"
Give me a palamino core athlon or a williamete core p4 and with the right peripherials I would guarantee you that I'll run doom 3 1024x768. That's how it works. Any one system component is useless without the support of another, chemistry is the key to a fast computer, is the key to latency and stability.
... And I still think that dude in the other forum that people here have building a computer he doesn't even need really just needs a $17 PCI gfx card to free up cpu resources from his crappy onboard gfx.
/end ramble
