Cheap(ish) upgrade

[Plan B]

To me, this just doesn't seem the time to do serious upgrades;
I'm going to wait a couple of months for Rage, Deus Ex:HR, Batman:AC etc to hit.

Nice system to tide you over, though (no ygp-if-that's-all-you-can-afford)

[Don Carlos]

Interesting...well we shall see what happens when I smash on the 64bit on the weekend.

My 5.9 score is the same running at 2.8ghz and 3.6ghz...any ideas?

[Plan B]

It probably only recognizes stock/default cpu settings?
(I know nothing about how that whole windows scoring system works, but prolly run 3dmark again to get a more reliable bench)

[SoM]

32bit vista only sees 3GB ram

[Plan B]

Yeah, but he's talking about overclocking his cpu, no?
Doesn't really seem ram dependant.

[SoM]

Don, did you do a rescan the assesment after OC'ing ?

[Don Carlos]

The machine upgrade is a long road and this is a good base for cost vs performance vs OC potential.

Slap a 470 in it and I am sure it will destroy most games.

I think performance vs a i7 would show a gulf but for the money I've paid the AMD option was a no brainer. Less than 300 for the CPU, Mobo, RAM and hard drive.

New GFX card for Rage and that will see me for the next few years (had the last rig for 4 years unchanged

[Don Carlos]

Don, did you do a rescan the assesment after OC'ing ?

Yeah, but I'll try it again

[Don Carlos]

Still sees it as a 2.8ghz machine, despite another program showing it running at its true OC speed:

[SoM]

my overall score is also 5.9

but seperatly are higher then yours.

here's mine

AMD Phenom II X2 555 3.2GHz - 6.6
Kingston 2x2 GB dual channel 1600MHz - 7.4
Nvidia GeForce GT220 1 gig - 6.5
Gaming Graphics - 6.5
Seagate 1.5TB - 5.9

[Don Carlos]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh 5.9 is the maximum you can get on Vista sir....Windows 7 will give me some more "points" as it were

[SoM]

Ahhhhhhhhhh didn't know that, and never used Vista

[AmIdYfReAk]

Yeah, Vista's cap is 5.9, Though, i would think that they upped it with SP2... not sure though.

Nice scores man.

[Don Carlos]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds ... reviewed/9

Win

[^Ghost]

ur base score is determined by the lowest subscore. so if ur lowest score is 6.0 on gaming graphics, ur base score will be 6.0 (for win7)

and in the properties of my computer it will always show the standard clock speed, even if u did oc it.

for example my i7 920 is clocked at 4ghz but it still shows the standard clock speed of 2.67ghz

[Don Carlos]

Cheers for the info dude

[Don Carlos]

I only went 32bit as my disk came through and I am a nightmare for sitting with new stuff and ot doing anything with it

[obsidian]

How much memory does your OS say you have installed?

[Don Carlos]

4gig - 3.3gig usable

[AmIdYfReAk]

After reading this thread, i decided to update my windows score.....



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kinda messed up.

[Plan B]

specs?

[SoM]

so it looks like the max is 7.9 for Win7 ?

specs biatch

[AmIdYfReAk]

Currently, yeah, that's what it maxes out at...

I7 950
Corsair XMMS3 1600Mhz 7-8-7-20 @ 1T
GTX 460
Vertex 2 60gb
2X WD black 640GB Raid 0 on ICH10R
etc

[SoM]

Amidah

what brand gfx you got and is it the SE version ?

also does it take 1-6pin connector or 2 ?

thinking of buying one or spend 100 more for the 570.

gotta check my PSU if i have 2+ 6pin connectors and or 1x 8pin

looks like the 480GTX is better then 570GTX

according to this

[AmIdYfReAk]

Zotac its the GTX460 1GB.

it takes two 6 pin connectors.

They had it on sale for $120 on boxing day, so i picked it up, and going to grab another soon to sli the bitch.