CTZ's Zombie Pwnage rig
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If I'm honest all that articles proves to me is Vista's ineptitude for gaming.
I have made the swap from 3 processors all of roughly the same production time to get to my current rig and achieve the best I could.
It started by needing a new GPU as games were pwning my setup. This then made me realise it was not the GPU but the CPU holding it back. CPU in question was a AMD64X2 4400+ and the new GPU was a single Asus Extreme 8800GTX. I changed from what I thought was an ageing X800XT PE to the GTX and received less than 10FPS increase (I place at better coding by nVidia not the actual card). Frustrated with this I went to an E6600 and received a further 100FPS and this isn't in something thats programmed properly to use all cores this is CSS. With some spare cash and a SuperSpecial i bought a Q6600 and received a further 50FPS again this is in CSS which is simply not designed for multithreading.
All of this was done on XP 32-bit then I found out about memory problems with 32-bit and went 64-bit and added the heapsize command for an added 15FPS or so. The benefit of the heapsize is not high performance but more stable FPS.
I have made the swap from 3 processors all of roughly the same production time to get to my current rig and achieve the best I could.
It started by needing a new GPU as games were pwning my setup. This then made me realise it was not the GPU but the CPU holding it back. CPU in question was a AMD64X2 4400+ and the new GPU was a single Asus Extreme 8800GTX. I changed from what I thought was an ageing X800XT PE to the GTX and received less than 10FPS increase (I place at better coding by nVidia not the actual card). Frustrated with this I went to an E6600 and received a further 100FPS and this isn't in something thats programmed properly to use all cores this is CSS. With some spare cash and a SuperSpecial i bought a Q6600 and received a further 50FPS again this is in CSS which is simply not designed for multithreading.
All of this was done on XP 32-bit then I found out about memory problems with 32-bit and went 64-bit and added the heapsize command for an added 15FPS or so. The benefit of the heapsize is not high performance but more stable FPS.
Counter Terrorist Zombie
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Hi Guys!
It's been a bit since I've been in here so sorry for the delay!
rrjwilson - I upgraded to a quad core whilst at uni. I was doing a 3D project and couldn't wait 30seconds more for my test renders
Anyhow, once that project was complete I saw no benefit of the quads (money locked up tbh). My biggest concern of downgrading was the degraded performance in Supreme Commander - to my surprise hardly any noticeable difference (imo, playing single play skirmish battles with 1k unit limits).
I still do a bit of 3D rendering and the difference is obvious between the dual and quad.
The heatsink does have a fan - the fan from my Thermaltake Big Typhoon. routing of air is a bit more complicated and needs some photos to explain whats going on (I'll do that tomorrow).
The cpu is currently clocked @ 3.8GHz with the following temps:
Idle: 44c (average core temp)
Load: 55c (average core temp)
Room temp: Roughly 26/28c
- please bear this in mind!
Ram: 5-5-5-18 @ 1:1 (system fsb 430MHz)
System is okay for the only game I play at the moment lol
Team Fortress 2 (minimum 35fps | 1680x1050)
It's been a bit since I've been in here so sorry for the delay!
rrjwilson - I upgraded to a quad core whilst at uni. I was doing a 3D project and couldn't wait 30seconds more for my test renders
Anyhow, once that project was complete I saw no benefit of the quads (money locked up tbh). My biggest concern of downgrading was the degraded performance in Supreme Commander - to my surprise hardly any noticeable difference (imo, playing single play skirmish battles with 1k unit limits).I still do a bit of 3D rendering and the difference is obvious between the dual and quad.
The heatsink does have a fan - the fan from my Thermaltake Big Typhoon. routing of air is a bit more complicated and needs some photos to explain whats going on (I'll do that tomorrow).
The cpu is currently clocked @ 3.8GHz with the following temps:
Idle: 44c (average core temp)
Load: 55c (average core temp)
Room temp: Roughly 26/28c
- please bear this in mind!Ram: 5-5-5-18 @ 1:1 (system fsb 430MHz)
System is okay for the only game I play at the moment lol
Team Fortress 2 (minimum 35fps | 1680x1050)
General_Chris
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Hey looks nice man gj 
Classified95
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NZXT makes awesome cases. I see that one advertised in computer magazines a lot. Your old parts suck, but the new ones are nice. 
