GameAddict
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Current system
AMD Athon XP 2000
Windows XP Home ED
1gig DDR Ram (PC 2100 I belive)
60 gig Western Digital HD
Geforce4 TI 4600 XP Vison Tek
ASUS A7A266-E Mother Board (bought in Feb.'02)
Nothing overclocked.
With 30.82 drivers I score around 10,300 on 3D Mark. With the beta drivers (41.72 I think) I scrore around 11k. These scores are after a reformat about a month ago. I defrag once a week. I have the latest verson of cacheman to help with memory useage. Not alot of programs running in background.
I have been beta testing a very graphic entinsive game called Asherons Call 2. I run AC2 in high and very high settings pretty good except in crowded areas. Real crowded areas (40+ people) it drops to crap, 10 second freezes are the worst I have seen. EVEN if I turn all settings down as low as possible. Last night I was playing Never Winter Nights in 1600x1200, all graphics maxed and occasionaly I was getting a little slow down which didn't seem right for my system but usually it did good. My brother has similar system but has a KT400 motherboard and he does seem to get pretty good preformance.
Some times when I start a game or right after I turn my computer on my HD makes a weird sound. Kinda like a bogged down vibrating sound of a fan starting up, but I know its my HD not a fan. Wonder if my HD could have some porblems.
Anyway, I will prolly be picking up a Geforce5 when they hit stores but since that may be Jan-Feb of next year I'm looking for advice one what else to upgrade. Do you think a new motherboard w/ 8xagp for Geforce5 when it hit's shelves or hard drive with 8mb cache would give a good increase? I have heard about the KT400's and the new MB based on Nforce2 chip set are suppose to be nice.
Oh well, any suggestions?
AMD Athon XP 2000
Windows XP Home ED
1gig DDR Ram (PC 2100 I belive)
60 gig Western Digital HD
Geforce4 TI 4600 XP Vison Tek
ASUS A7A266-E Mother Board (bought in Feb.'02)
Nothing overclocked.
With 30.82 drivers I score around 10,300 on 3D Mark. With the beta drivers (41.72 I think) I scrore around 11k. These scores are after a reformat about a month ago. I defrag once a week. I have the latest verson of cacheman to help with memory useage. Not alot of programs running in background.
I have been beta testing a very graphic entinsive game called Asherons Call 2. I run AC2 in high and very high settings pretty good except in crowded areas. Real crowded areas (40+ people) it drops to crap, 10 second freezes are the worst I have seen. EVEN if I turn all settings down as low as possible. Last night I was playing Never Winter Nights in 1600x1200, all graphics maxed and occasionaly I was getting a little slow down which didn't seem right for my system but usually it did good. My brother has similar system but has a KT400 motherboard and he does seem to get pretty good preformance.
Some times when I start a game or right after I turn my computer on my HD makes a weird sound. Kinda like a bogged down vibrating sound of a fan starting up, but I know its my HD not a fan. Wonder if my HD could have some porblems.
Anyway, I will prolly be picking up a Geforce5 when they hit stores but since that may be Jan-Feb of next year I'm looking for advice one what else to upgrade. Do you think a new motherboard w/ 8xagp for Geforce5 when it hit's shelves or hard drive with 8mb cache would give a good increase? I have heard about the KT400's and the new MB based on Nforce2 chip set are suppose to be nice.
Oh well, any suggestions?