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Can anyone with a similar system tell me what kinda scores they get on benchmark testing & gaming performance?

Turkish

Turkish

Lifer
Just ordered some parts for replacing my dating system. Specs:

Case: COOLERMAS|STC-T01-UWK RT
Motherboard: MSI|VIA K8T800 K8T NEO-FIS2R RT
Processor: AMD 64 |3700+ ATHLON 64 754 RT
Video Card: PNY|6800GT 256M VCG6800GAPB
Memory: 1 GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 (512x2)
Harddrive: 1 x 120 GB WD SE w/ 8mb Cache, 1 x 200 GB WD SE w/ 8mb Cache.

Thanks.
 
That GT will likely hit Ultra speed no trouble, but even@stock that rig should pull 12kish 3DM'03 5kish'05 65kish AQ3 and let you play most the newest games@12x10 lot 'o eye candy and just about anything else@16x12 with some eye candy. I have a similar setup except 512k cache@2.4ghz=3400+ 240HTT but with ram@ default 400DDR and that has been my experience.

I would have went 939@this time personally, but I get the impression you will run this setup a good while so no BFD 🙂
 
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That GT will likely hit Ultra speed no trouble, but even@stock that rig should pull 12kish 3DM'03 5kish'05 65kish AQ3 and let you play most the newest games@12x10 lot 'o eye candy and just about anything else@16x12 with some eye candy. I have a similar setup except 512k cache@2.4ghz=3400+ 240HTT but with ram@ default 400DDR and that has been my experience.

I would have went 939@this time personally, but I get the impression you will run this setup a good while so no BFD 🙂
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Thanks for the response man. Why would you have gone 939? I'm probably going to keep this setup till the end of Summer'05 so I just need something that'll run most games/apps good till then. I don't know how it will be priced but I may go with Intel's 64bit when they come out next year. We'll see.

And what do you mean when you say ram@ default 400DDR? Do they come with some other default setting? 😕 Excuse my noobness 🙂
 
I'd have gone 939 for the 4 ram slots and dual channel * not a big performance gain for gaming but still better, and in some areas significantly better* and Winchester core CPUs. All that isn't a big deal as mentioned, but still a better choice IMO since that 3700+ is expensive and will likely not overclock much while the $200 3200+ Winchester may potentially match or beat it in performance when overclocked for a lot less money.

The reason I mentioned 400DDR is because I run 240HTT which if I had started with the ram@400DDR default would have resulted in overclocking my ram beyond what it can handle. So I started it@333DDR so that it is running in spec with the HTT overclocked thanks to the different divider.
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I'd have gone 939 for the 4 ram slots and dual channel * not a big performance gain for gaming but still better, and in some areas significantly better* and Winchester core CPUs. All that isn't a big deal as mentioned, but still a better choice IMO since that 3700+ is expensive and will likely not overclock much while the $200 3200+ Winchester may potentially match or beat it in performance when overclocked for a lot less money.

The reason I mentioned 400DDR is because I run 240HTT which if I had started with the ram@400DDR default would have resulted in overclocking my ram beyond what it can handle. So I started it@333DDR so that it is running in spec with the HTT overclocked thanks to the different divider.
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I thought about the 4 ram slots but I already have 1 GB of RAM and it seems to handle most applications/games well. So I'm probably going to upgrade to 2GB by this summer and that should get me through 2005. There'll be better processors/motherboards/memory so I'll just upgrade again then.

I'll probably keep my rig as it is (stock), I'm not a big fan of overclocking unless I see thousands of people do it everyday and keep a silent/cool system 😛 I know AMD is known by its overclocking friendliness so will it be a shame if I don't overlock? 🙂

 
No, you won't need to with that beast of a computer. I think dapunisher was just referring to the fact that you could have saved some bucks by going 939 winchester. Not a big deal if you have the money though. Have fun with that system! 🙂
Oh, and I can't give you what kinda scores you'll get because I currently run a p4 2.4/400 mhz fsb. 🙁
 
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