LA_MERC_YellowDog
February 21st, 2007, 08:56 AM
OK, I got me a new upgrade yesterday...
Here are the Details...
Had = Gigabyte NVIDIA 6800 GT 128Mb Ram, Fan less heat sink
New = BFG NVIDIA 7800 GS OC 256 Mb Ram, with cooling fan.
"On sale at Best Buy for $187.00"
I cleaned my system up, defragmented it, prior to running any benchmarks
3DMARK06, before = 1518
3DMARK06, after = 2765
That’s a 1247 point increase :)
My CPU rating stayed the same, only the graphics and HDR ratings increased..
My current setup
- Antec Case. 480 Watt Antec P/S
- AMD Athlon XP 2800+ OC to 3000+ "400MHz FSB" 10.5 Multiplier
- Corsair 2gb XMS 400MHz PC3200 DDR dual channel RAM
- MSI-K7n2delta 6570 Mobo 400MHz FSB.
- N-Force2 Chipset, running onboard sound
- SCSI Pci adapter to run a W/D 160 GB SATA hard drive.
" MOBO not equipped with SATA"
AND BF2 Looked GREAT last night... I could actually see a hand grenade I threw to the top of a building to kill a sniper on Jalalabad make it all the way to the top :)
I know my system is outdated, but at this time its what I have to work with, so I’m getting the most I can out of it... I am actually kind of surprised at how well its working out considering theirs not to much else I can do to increase performance, besides maybe a 3200+ processor and a good sound card to free up the processor some... and maybe a W/D 10k Rpm raptor hard drive to speed things up a bit. :)
WHAT YALL THINK!!! ??
Here are the Details...
Had = Gigabyte NVIDIA 6800 GT 128Mb Ram, Fan less heat sink
New = BFG NVIDIA 7800 GS OC 256 Mb Ram, with cooling fan.
"On sale at Best Buy for $187.00"
I cleaned my system up, defragmented it, prior to running any benchmarks
3DMARK06, before = 1518
3DMARK06, after = 2765
That’s a 1247 point increase :)
My CPU rating stayed the same, only the graphics and HDR ratings increased..
My current setup
- Antec Case. 480 Watt Antec P/S
- AMD Athlon XP 2800+ OC to 3000+ "400MHz FSB" 10.5 Multiplier
- Corsair 2gb XMS 400MHz PC3200 DDR dual channel RAM
- MSI-K7n2delta 6570 Mobo 400MHz FSB.
- N-Force2 Chipset, running onboard sound
- SCSI Pci adapter to run a W/D 160 GB SATA hard drive.
" MOBO not equipped with SATA"
AND BF2 Looked GREAT last night... I could actually see a hand grenade I threw to the top of a building to kill a sniper on Jalalabad make it all the way to the top :)
I know my system is outdated, but at this time its what I have to work with, so I’m getting the most I can out of it... I am actually kind of surprised at how well its working out considering theirs not to much else I can do to increase performance, besides maybe a 3200+ processor and a good sound card to free up the processor some... and maybe a W/D 10k Rpm raptor hard drive to speed things up a bit. :)
WHAT YALL THINK!!! ??