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[TheCincinnatiKid]

I have no problem pushing 125-140 fps with this card.

[mr.lively]

the extra 2 gigs of ram won't do anything for ya unless you run vista 64bit, and if you do run vista64...ummm...ya

but that video card is a great choice.

what do you mean by the 'ummmm... ya' about vista 64?

[youwerekilled]

what do you mean by the 'ummmm... ya' about vista 64?

only 64 bit os (i.e. vista 64 or xp pro 64bit) can utilize all 4 gigs of memory, so after your gpu and a bunch of other sh*t you are prob only using 3 gigs of your 4 gigs max. you are better off with just 2 gigs of good ram, than 4 gigs of ok ram.

[Sniprwulf]

only 64 bit os (i.e. vista 64 or xp pro 64bit) can utilize all 4 gigs of memory, so after your gpu and a bunch of other sh*t you are prob only using 3 gigs of your 4 gigs max. you are better off with just 2 gigs of good ram, than 4 gigs of ok ram.

you only know that because shadow ownd you when you said you wanted lik 8 gigs of ram!

love you man.

[E42]

Well I bought the HD3870. And it works alot better than the 8800GT did. It even looks alot crisper. Not sure whats up with my system tho. I still think something is messing up. I'm still not getting great FPS. Alltho I do see an increase of about 10-20 FPS in TF2 over my 7900GS. As for the ram I have 2 Gigs coming. I know 32 bit doesnt use all of it.. I think only 3.3. But why not max it out? If I don't see an increase in proformance, i'll just have to update my processor. It's the only thing I can think of that I havent updated.

[E42]

I'm going to update the processor and motherboard. Since there is no support for this board on the Asus website. I only have restore disks with my pc. So I need an OS.. I have Windows Xp Pro on a cd from old old pc that sh*t the bed. Can I use that disk?

I was thinking of going with these combos which include free shipping and tax free.

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard $129.99 with code


http://www.newegg.co...-L4C-_-13131013

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core Processor $149.99 with code

http://www.newegg.co...-L2C-_-19103773

OR

AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Processor $189.99 with code

http://www.newegg.co...-L2D-_-19103244

[DarkShadow]

because 3gb over 2gb makes literally no difference at all, and gl finding two 1.5gb sticks, because 3x1gb = Failure and aids w/ No DC support.

[E42]

any suggestion on what to do? Everything seems to run slow. Maybe i'm exspecting to much? I'm just frustrated people with the same card are getting over 100fps and i'm getting in the 50-60's @ 800x 600. Will the motherboard and processor in my previous post work to remedy this?

Score 7609 3DMarks

Date Mar 19, 2008 21:16 CDT

OS Microsoft Windows Vista

CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+

Processor clock 2164 MHz

CPU Speed 2205 MHz

Memory 3072 MB

Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTek Computer INC.
Motherboard model NODUSM3

Multicore 2 Processor Cores
FSB 200 MHz

Graphics card ATI Radeon HD3870

Graphics card vendor ATI Technologies
Graphics memory 512 MB

Core clock 388.0 MHz

Memory clock 564.0 MHz

Driver name ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series

Driver version 8.471.0.0

Edited by E42, 20 March 2008 - 02:12 PM.

[DarkShadow]

Shitty PSU, old mobo, generic ram, low-rpm hd... these are what slow a computer down.

if your just speaking strictly about FPS, turn vsync off, tweak your config, and try again.

[ShLoNkY]

Overclock your processor 2.2 is slow as hell. You should be able to get 2.6 easily. That'll make a pretty big difference.

Vista is sucking the life out of your system as well.


I have an FX55 @ 2.9 ghz with a 8800GTS (G92) and get 13,500 in 3DMark.......


BTW and IMO 8800gt>3870 check the benchmarks....

[E42]

Well bringing up my old thread instead of making a new one. I finally got my new PC together and running. I'm very pleased so far.

Antec 900 Case I got it for $79.00
Antec 600 Watt PSU was free
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 $79.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz $203.00
G.SKILL 2GB PC2 6400 $42.00
SAPPHIRE HD3870 I already have
Seagate Barracuda 320Gigabyte Harddrive $69.00
LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM $19.99

$492.98


On idle CPU is 25 degrees. GPU is 35. I'm pretty please with it so far. My fps are around 60 - 150 in TF2. Sometimes over 200 inside. Comapred to 15-50 on my old system. Pretty funny to me that my old 4200+ was holding back my card that much. I'll post 3dmark score when i'm done downloaing 93 updates from Microsoft... bleh..

Edited by E42, 19 April 2008 - 08:26 AM.

[E42]

3Dmark06 11746. Compared to 7609 from my last system with the same card.

[SoulWind]

Not bad at all!

I have to tell you though your original problems with the new 8800GT are wierd, your CPU was more then fast enough for source with that card. My 8800GT in my old Athlon 64 X2 3800+ sill kept me solid at over 100fps with everything cranked.

Glad to hear you got your rig in order tho

[E42]

thanks! maybe I can actually play some now.

[-=Penguin=-]

i sold my comp(8800GTS,E6600,2GB RAM) because it was crapping out on me all the time, hence my absence. now im building another comp and these are the specs, plz tell me if it is good for $800.

Mobo:
Asus P5K Socket 775 Intel P35 ICH9 Chipset Dual-Channel DDR2 1066/800/667Mhz SATA 3.0Gb/s 12x USB 2.0
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket LGA775, 3 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache, 45nm
Cooling:
Scythe Kama PWM Fan 9cm (200~2500rpm) Chassis Fan
Hard Drive:
Western Digital Caviar (WD5000AAKS) 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Buffer
Memory:
OCZ (OCZ2RPR10664GK) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Reaper HPC Edition 4GB
Power Supply:
OCZ (OCZ500SXS) StealthXStream 500W ATX12V 20/24PIN Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fan Black
Video Card:
EVGA e-GeForce 9600GT Superclocked 512MB (512-P3-N862-AR) nVidia GeForce 9600GT Chipset (675Mhz) 512MB (1900Mhz) GDDR3

[NuLL-ZeR0]

i sold my comp(8800GTS,E6600,2GB RAM) because it was crapping out on me all the time, hence my absence. now im building another comp and these are the specs, plz tell me if it is good for $800.

Mobo:
Asus P5K Socket 775 Intel P35 ICH9 Chipset Dual-Channel DDR2 1066/800/667Mhz SATA 3.0Gb/s 12x USB 2.0
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket LGA775, 3 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache, 45nm
Cooling:
Scythe Kama PWM Fan 9cm (200~2500rpm) Chassis Fan
Hard Drive:
Western Digital Caviar (WD5000AAKS) 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Buffer
Memory:
OCZ (OCZ2RPR10664GK) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Reaper HPC Edition 4GB
Power Supply:
OCZ (OCZ500SXS) StealthXStream 500W ATX12V 20/24PIN Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fan Black
Video Card:
EVGA e-GeForce 9600GT Superclocked 512MB (512-P3-N862-AR) nVidia GeForce 9600GT Chipset (675Mhz) 512MB (1900Mhz) GDDR3

get a e8400, abit ip35 pro, 2gb crucial ballistix ram, 8800gt, and corsair vx550 power supply

f*ck OCZ and my friend has the asus P5k its OK but not great, the sata ports get blocked with long video cards.