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[TopGunSF]

Just wondering what system specs you all got.

I have:

AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+
2 Gig pc3200 RAM
Radeon x1600pro vid card
300 gig drive
super multi drive w/ light scribe
DVD-ROM drive

(This is all in a customized HP Pavilion m7470n, I had a few parts added...)

Just tried out Doom 3 on this sytem, runs great on "high" graphics but starts to drop in frame rate if I set the resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768. Turning off specular helps though, helps a lot actually... odd, guess ATI doesn't agree with specular. Also get some graphics corruption unless running antialiasing 2x or higher, really odd...

Edited by TopGunSF, 28 May 2006 - 06:00 PM.

[MaLing]

Doom 3 is known as an incredibly hungry game.

[2005]

My specs

Dual Core AMD Opteron 165 CCBWE 0607 @ 2.43ghz (9x270)
G.Skill 2x1024MB (2GB) PC3200 at 2.5-3-3-6
DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra D
Western Digital Caviar 320GB Sata
NEC ND 2510A with modded firmware (riplock and region free)
Sapphire Radeon X1800XT 512MB @ Stock
Enermax 535W SLI PSU
Logitech G15 gaming keyboard
Logitech G7 wireless mouse



Awesome really, Ill get some super PI scores up and what not. This 165 is that great of an OC'er, but I only had to go to 1.4V to get to 2.43 and thats a 35% OC right there.

On another note, the X1600PRO was a very poor choice for a graphics card. Its a bad choice because of its 12 pipeline limatation and its crippled with only a 128 bit bus whereas cards of that caliber should have a 256 bit bus. Thats your issue with doom 3, if you had a card similar to mine you'd probably run D3 on any setting with little issues (once you go to 1600x1200).

Edited by 2005, 29 May 2006 - 04:39 PM.

[zamiel]

Using NZ prices the X1600Pro is $378 whilst your card is $1337. That's nearly a 1K difference. Some of us don't like spending that much on a Video Card

[2005]

Thats awesome, and yes my card is 1337 rofl

[TopGunSF]

Wow... your card costs more then half of what my computer does... Share the wealth...
How much difference to the pipe lines actually make? I never really noticed much differencing resulting from more or less of them, seems 4 is just as good as 12.

Edited by TopGunSF, 31 May 2006 - 04:20 PM.

[Jito463]

More pipelines = more data being processed per cycle. Having more pipelines makes a huge difference in games. Of course, it all depends on how high you have the settings in the game. If you run 800x600 (or even lower) with low quality settings, then 4 pipelines vs 12 means very little (though it can still make some difference). If you run 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 with medium or high quality then the difference is enormous.

[2005]

Which is what I do, I play games mostly at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 because any larger and text becomes too small. But I turn all the eye candy to max.

This card did cost more then my CPU lol.

[Sir Camehan]

My PC specs:

3Ghz P4
1GB DDR400 RAM
160GB Seagate Barracuda IDE HD
XFX NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT w/128MB GDDR3 RAM
Lite-On DVD burner
SoundBlaster Audigy soundcard

My rig runs Doom 3 perfectly on 800x600 on high detail with a silky smooth framerate. Same goes for Star Wars - Empire At War with all the visual effects turned up and on (except for soft-shadows and antialiasing). The only game that seems to be choppy a tiny bit is F.E.A.R... But its known that F.E.A.R is a major resource hog, anyway.

[2005]

I can run F.E.A.R. pretty well, some games do better with ATI or NV

Edited by 2005, 01 June 2006 - 12:33 PM.

[TopGunSF]

Well, I think I may go ahead and upgrade my card (even though system is new) to a Radeon x1900, would love to see how much difference it makes, 16 pipes and 256-bit so this should be interesting.

[2005]

The difference will be earth shattering, no exaggerations and no screwing around. It will be 3000% better.

You will go from lagging on COD to getting 60+ FPS on COD2 with all settings and res maxed.

[TopGunSF]

Well, I went out and got me a Radeon x1900 GT. You were right, the difference is astounding. No matter what I do to this thing it seems to go right to the max and stick there. This card only has 256MB of memory but it was the best best buy had to offer. I'm happy with it though, it really doesn't seem to make any difference in any of the games I've tried it on. Even Doom 3 keeps the same settings with the 256MB.

Edited by TopGunSF, 02 June 2006 - 10:13 PM.

[2005]

http://www.gpureview...1=415&card2=326

It seems the cards are pretty even, each takeing its own share of benchmarks... I wouldnt hesitate to say thought that the X1900GT would do a tad better in shader heavy games.

Good buy, you will be pleased with it.

Oc that 4200+ and you could see up to a 10% gain in FPS at max settings.

[Robbo]

I remember when I had a Commodore C64 now those were the days.

[tigger69]

my specs-
pentium d 930@4050(270x15)
asus p5wd2
2x512mb patriot pc7200@450/900@2.3v 5.5.5.15
x800gto 256mb
2x80 gig hitachi sataII raid0
leadtek dtv1000 t tv card
audigy 4
seasonic s12 430 watt
akasa eclipse 62
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[ZombieKIL]

My system specs are:

System One

OS: Windows XP Profession XP x64 Edition
Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8WE
Memory: Corsair DDR400 ECC 4x512
CPU: Opteron 2x 265 Dual Core
Hard drive Controllers 2x Adaptec SAS/SATA Controller
Hard Drives: Maxtor SAS 74gb 15000rpm
7x Western Digital 320gb
CD/DVD: 2x Pioneer DVD-RW 111D
Display Adapter: Gigabyte 7800GT
Sound Card: M-Audio Delta 1010

System Two: Workstation

Motherboard: Tyan Tiger K8WE
OS: Windows XP Professional XP x64 Edition
Memory: Corsair DDR400 ECC 2x1024
CPU: Opteron 2x 270 Dual Core
Hard Drive Controllers: Onboard Nvidia SATA; Promise SATAII300 TX4
Hard Drives: Western Digital Raptor 16mb cache 74gb 10000rpm
7x Western Digital 250gb
CD/DVD: 2x Pioneer DVD-RW 111D
Display Adapter: Gigabyte 7900GT
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-FI

[tigger69]

are you rich or lucky or both zombiekil,nice systems tho' lol

[2005]

Rofl, beast systems zombie

[TopGunSF]

Really... people... start sharing the wealth! Ah well, my card maxes out Doom 3 on high graphics, everything up, 1024x768, 4x AA, so I'm happy. Then again, I am overclocking my card, no idea what it would do if I weren't. How I love ATI Overdrive.

Edited by TopGunSF, 07 June 2006 - 05:30 PM.