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lockstock2sb said:
I'm speccing a new system to run games. I have a p4 2.4 system already - anyone know if a Single Core AMD Athlon 64 3500 is better than a p4 2.4 (my existing system)? It says in brackets that is 2.2ghz - so i guess its the efficiency that counts here right ?
Asus A8N-SLI, nForce4 SLI, Socket-939 ATX, S-ATA, GbLAN, Firewire,DDR,PCI-Ex16
Article number: 305264
Stock status: 30 stocked 83 83
TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 1024MB Dual Pack Kit w/two matched PC3200 DDR DIMMs
Article number: 118498
Stock status: 100+ stocked 69
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 512KB, BOXED w/fan
Article number: 307203
Stock status: 50-99 stocked 145
Cooler Master Cavalier 3 Silver (Without PSU)
Seasonic S12-600 PSU - 600w
ATI Radeon 256MB x800GT PCI-E card
thoughts on spec so far ?
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Wednesday 26th October 16:28
at first glance i would say that the AMD 64 would be a lot better. you can't compare processors by clock speed these days - there is so much in the architectures that affects performance other than straight cycles per second. the best thing to do is search google for comparisons between AMD and P4 chips. Bear in mind that applications although 32 bit at the moment will start to be written for 64bit systems shortly. And no doubt some will start to be optimized for the dual core cpus.
motherboard sounds great.
BUT - don't get twinmos memory. its cheap and not so good. i had some before using an nforce Asus motherboard & pretty much had to bin it in favour of something of higher quality. memory is one of those components where it really does pay to get good quality kit. i've found in the past that cheap memory won't necessarily run stable at the high speeds its
specced to. Look at Corsair - you might pay a few more quid but its worth it. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, for bf2 its definitely worth having 2GB
X800 GT is a good card - i had the mobile version in a laptop recently, but if you're buying an SLI motherboard, shouldn't you be looking at SLI ready nvidia gfx cards? even if you just get one, it leaves the option to double up later when you need to...
coolermaster make nice cases. couldn't comment on the PSU but 600W is enough.
Hope thats of use. Good luck!
Cheers for that
I specced an Ati becuase there's a review in a custom pc mag that says that this card is better than the 6600 nvidia card for clocking due to its superior cooling and components.. but then you have a point - if i can double up with 2 6600's then thats going to be miles better than 1 overclocked card
That PSU is the bollox - it won a award for being able to provide a stable 600w power source 100% of the time. Its virtually silent on full load as well. It has a 12mm fan but it never kicks in i'm told. When you are running serious video cards you need a good psu - its a bit like running your cerbera on optimax - you can run it on the cheaper stuff but it wont be doing the driving experience justice
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Thursday 27th October 11:54
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Thursday 27th October 11:55
I specced an Ati becuase there's a review in a custom pc mag that says that this card is better than the 6600 nvidia card for clocking due to its superior cooling and components.. but then you have a point - if i can double up with 2 6600's then thats going to be miles better than 1 overclocked card
That PSU is the bollox - it won a award for being able to provide a stable 600w power source 100% of the time. Its virtually silent on full load as well. It has a 12mm fan but it never kicks in i'm told. When you are running serious video cards you need a good psu - its a bit like running your cerbera on optimax - you can run it on the cheaper stuff but it wont be doing the driving experience justice
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Thursday 27th October 11:54
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Thursday 27th October 11:55
lockstock2sb said:
Cheers for that
I specced an Ati becuase there's a review in a custom pc mag that says that this card is better than the 6600 nvidia card for clocking due to its superior cooling and components.. but then you have a point - if i can double up with 2 6600's then thats going to be miles better than 1 overclocked card
That PSU is the bollox - it won a award for being able to provide a stable 600w power source 100% of the time. Its virtually silent on full load as well. It has a 12mm fan but it never kicks in i'm told. When you are running serious video cards you need a good psu - its a bit like running your cerbera on optimax - you can run it on the cheaper stuff but it wont be doing the driving experience justice
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Thursday 27th October 11:54
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Thursday 27th October 11:55
Yep, its all fun and games man - juggling performance & bottlenecks, future proof-ness, budget, quality, value, looks ... gaaaaah - its worse than buying a car! haha.
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