I admit that since I quit work and went back to school, the gaming side of my computer use has been sorely neglected. I haven't even kept up with the state of the industry. My computer was relegated to a tool for programming and other homework.
Well, as a "good job so far", my family all pitched in and provided me with much upgrade goodness for it. It's been running like a champ, but I am curious as to how seriously it can be taken for gaming. Upgrades include: Asus M3A78 MB AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.9 Ghz (This thing I have says it is ~= to 8.4 Ghz? O_o What?) 4 gigs of matched Corsair RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (It has 512 megs of RAM, but again that system thing says it has 1,7 gigs available. From where is it getting the rest?) 750 watt PSU How's that? I upgraded from an Athlon XP 64 3700+, 2 gigs of RAM running at a lower bus speed and an ATI Radeon X800 XT, so it all seems a heck of a lot faster to me (not to mention I couldn't even run Bioshock because the video card just didn't have the technology), but that means little. Does anyone know of any good benchmarks other than the ones from the Futuremark guys? Are there any game demos out there that I can really stress this thing with? I might splurge a little on a new game or two if I find some I like. What do you gamer types have in your systems? Come on, share! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:284108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
