How do you know that? I want to know how people know these things. The only tools I have are the ones I mentioned. But apparently they cannot test gaming performance. What can?
Just running games and checking fps? Are there any game benchmarking tools which taken the video card out if the equation and only test cpu potential?
EDIT: I ran the game at much lower resolutions, and the interesting thing is that frame rate does not improve and the CPU still stays something like 97-100% in MSI Afterburner. This shows me clearly the CPU cannot handle this game. I went to other areas and I see that frames sometimes drop as low as 9 fps. This was a big eye opener for me, because most non AAA titles that I ran, would run just fine.
It's not that I cannot afford a better CPU. I am just really interested in testing the limits of older hardware. This is a lot of fun for me.
Exactly. This seems like the best place to post about old stuff
@AtenRa, but if it is hijacking let me know and I will delete it and start my own thread.
Old thread but still relevant for folks like myself. I recently rescued a Asus M2N68-AM SE2 with a AMD64 X2 5200+, and 2x2GB DDR2 800, win 10 pro activated/attached, from going in a landfill, when I upgraded a client. I have a soft spot for nVidia (they spelled it that way back then iirc) chipsets. Many fond memories of using boards based on them. Used to be the Soltek forum moderator at NforcersHQ bitd; man did I love the Golden Flame
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/447/soltek_sl_75mrn_l_golden_flame_motherboard_review/index9.html Anyways, I have a Phenom II x4 960T that will be here any minute, so this necro for the updates is serendipity baby!
I have it updated to the latest firmware 1801 8/15/2012, but I don't think it has support for unlocking the extra cores to x6. Provided they are undamaged. Going to find out for certain shortly.
With the X2@2.8GHz and the bus and ram overclocked/along for the ride since it is multi locked, SATA SSD, and a GTX 1070, it can decode 1440p60 Youtube with CPU usage hovering around 35 percent. Web is fairly snappy, but there is a perceptible slight pause/wait to loading pages a modern AM4 with a 12T CPU does not have. Only played a vintage game, Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 2006 so far, and it ran great with everything maxed@1440p. For comparison, Win 10 pro, on a Ryzen 1600, DDR4 3200, same GTX 1070, it averages about double the frame rate. The X2 never fully maxes both cores in the title, and it uses only about 2.3 GB of ram. the 960T is unlocked so I will see if it will do at least 3.8-40GHz with a 6 heat pipe Zalman cooler rated for 140w? I had sitting in a parts bin.
Going to play Fallout 4 like
@ibex333 was doing. I have seen youtube vids with most of this gear, but it really is a lot of fun to mess with this old stuff. I do not think I ever owned a Phenom series CPU so that is a bonus.