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Cal
Player Valuation: £40m
I beg to differ, there is quite a substanial list of games that support dual-core processors.
And that was just a quick google.
Back in November I upgraded from a P4 2.4 with 768Mb ram and a PCI :blink: FX5200 to an AMD Athlon X2 64 4200, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, 1Gb DDR400, 256MB GeForce 7900 GS for only $800. Oh a sound card was in there too. All in all, it runs everything in great resolutions. Worth my money.
SuitsBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
amd barton 3200xp (400mhz fsb)
1 gb crucial DDR 400mhz
Abit NF7-s v2.0
nvidia Geforce 6800
the system i have outlined above plays all those games, what i was getting at with regards games and utilising the hardware, i was meaning that when games are made that require the more powerful hardware and thus wont play on my system.
$800 is about £400 currently, i dont reckon i could get your system together for 400 nicker (here in the UK anyway)
1 gb crucial DDR 400mhz
Abit NF7-s v2.0
nvidia Geforce 6800
the system i have outlined above plays all those games, what i was getting at with regards games and utilising the hardware, i was meaning that when games are made that require the more powerful hardware and thus wont play on my system.
$800 is about £400 currently, i dont reckon i could get your system together for 400 nicker (here in the UK anyway)
I find it amusing, as I was out of the PC gaming arena for so long, that AMD chips aren't as good as the Intel equivalents right now. And of course I bought on past history, otherwise I would have picked up a Core 2 Duo, which are rocking right now 
So how does your system cope running those aforementioned games?? What resolutions you running at?? I stick with 1200x1024 as that is my modest 19" LCD's native resolution.
And my 3dMark06 (unregistered) score is a nothing special ~10,000. But it is leaps and bounds better than my old system which struggled to hit 3500, and it is playing everything I want it too right now. My next upgrade, I can't decide on. Do I drop the money on a 8800GTX or get a Core 2 Duo hyper-ship and mobo?? Descisions, descision.
So how does your system cope running those aforementioned games?? What resolutions you running at?? I stick with 1200x1024 as that is my modest 19" LCD's native resolution.
And my 3dMark06 (unregistered) score is a nothing special ~10,000. But it is leaps and bounds better than my old system which struggled to hit 3500, and it is playing everything I want it too right now. My next upgrade, I can't decide on. Do I drop the money on a 8800GTX or get a Core 2 Duo hyper-ship and mobo?? Descisions, descision.
SuitsBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
one S in decision 
scarface.......................................fine
far cry.........................................fine
NFS carbon...................................fine
prey............................................fine
C&C tiberium wars demo..................fine
HL2.............................................fine
default display for my TFT is 1024 x 768
im looking at soundcards after a new AGP graphics card, the 'gainward bliss' is o/clockable just like my barton and ABIT mobo.
Is direct_X_10 going to be backwards compatible or 64mb OS systems only?
the AMD 64mb processors can run both 32mb and 64mb systems.
AMD has always been a slightly lesser processor manufacturer than intel, which is reflected in the cost, but certain facets of AMD cpu's mean that for example an AMD 2500 XP mobile can be overclocked with ballistix ram to run at over 3Ghz.
As you have the next generation of PC, whats the cooling and noise levels like?
scarface.......................................fine
far cry.........................................fine
NFS carbon...................................fine
prey............................................fine
C&C tiberium wars demo..................fine
HL2.............................................fine
default display for my TFT is 1024 x 768
im looking at soundcards after a new AGP graphics card, the 'gainward bliss' is o/clockable just like my barton and ABIT mobo.
Is direct_X_10 going to be backwards compatible or 64mb OS systems only?
the AMD 64mb processors can run both 32mb and 64mb systems.
AMD has always been a slightly lesser processor manufacturer than intel, which is reflected in the cost, but certain facets of AMD cpu's mean that for example an AMD 2500 XP mobile can be overclocked with ballistix ram to run at over 3Ghz.
As you have the next generation of PC, whats the cooling and noise levels like?
Robert Jarvis
Player Valuation: £35m
Hi Dylan
Well at least you are on the east coast away from all the hula girls. Bet it is a bit colder as well.
I like that expression NUB = non useful body. Now we need a forum with that title, eh Danny, we could have some fun with that. How about BT for the first NUB?
On the subject of PCs. I do not know if mine is really that much upto it. It consists of a P4 300ghz, 1 gig crucial ddr ram, 160gig Samsung SATA hd, use the onboard VIA sound, geforce gfx 5500 with 256 ram onboard but it is in a PCI slot? What I do know is it can handle video editing pretty well for burning onto CDs and DVDs and photo processing. So how would one measure a PC score?
Well at least you are on the east coast away from all the hula girls. Bet it is a bit colder as well.
I like that expression NUB = non useful body. Now we need a forum with that title, eh Danny, we could have some fun with that. How about BT for the first NUB?
On the subject of PCs. I do not know if mine is really that much upto it. It consists of a P4 300ghz, 1 gig crucial ddr ram, 160gig Samsung SATA hd, use the onboard VIA sound, geforce gfx 5500 with 256 ram onboard but it is in a PCI slot? What I do know is it can handle video editing pretty well for burning onto CDs and DVDs and photo processing. So how would one measure a PC score?
To measure your score you would need to download this:
http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark06/
Install it and run it. Be warned it is a 580Mb download, but it tells you just how fast your system is overall, and how it stacks up against other users who have similar equipment.
http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark06/
Install it and run it. Be warned it is a 580Mb download, but it tells you just how fast your system is overall, and how it stacks up against other users who have similar equipment.
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