hi guys,
I just built a new box. I used to be really into pc's a few years ago but spent a couple of years out of it so am a little rusty.
athlon 4800+ (not overclocked)
4 x 1gb oc-z
2 x 300gb seagate sata2 drives (not in a raid config)
dfi rdx-200 motherboard
gecube ati 1900xtx
win xp sp2 32bit edition.
It only benchmarked 8943 3dmarks in 3dmark05 and i see other guys with similar specs getting 11k+
In some games it runs well - i.e. call of duty 2 I can play 1920x1200 with 4x AA and it's smooth as butter. In other games like battle for midle earth II it lags a little but I'm not sure whether to blame the video card, or my hard drives which seem a bit slow for some reason.
with the hard drives, I ran the sisoft sandra (2005 SR3) filesystem benchmark and it did 41mb/s I don't know if thats good or not. i doubt it is.
running latest ati drivers.
any tips would be greatly appreciated. cheers
I just built a new box. I used to be really into pc's a few years ago but spent a couple of years out of it so am a little rusty.
athlon 4800+ (not overclocked)
4 x 1gb oc-z
2 x 300gb seagate sata2 drives (not in a raid config)
dfi rdx-200 motherboard
gecube ati 1900xtx
win xp sp2 32bit edition.
It only benchmarked 8943 3dmarks in 3dmark05 and i see other guys with similar specs getting 11k+
In some games it runs well - i.e. call of duty 2 I can play 1920x1200 with 4x AA and it's smooth as butter. In other games like battle for midle earth II it lags a little but I'm not sure whether to blame the video card, or my hard drives which seem a bit slow for some reason.
with the hard drives, I ran the sisoft sandra (2005 SR3) filesystem benchmark and it did 41mb/s I don't know if thats good or not. i doubt it is.
running latest ati drivers.
any tips would be greatly appreciated. cheers
