I was actually impressed that games like Rainbow six etc. runs on a PIII 800 fairly well.
When considering how a game will run, I always assume I need the fastest, best machine to run it acceptably, but in the cases I have tried so far: NWN,Warcraft III Frozen Throne, Freelancer, Rainbow Six Raven Sheild...they all run acceptably on a PIII 800 with 256MB of RAM and a GeForce2 MX 64MB card. I mean..acceptable to the point where I certainly don't mind playing them on that setup. It doesn't really detract from the gameplay. So I'm sure that your machine will run these games fairly well too, but I would be intersted in seeing the 3DMark 2001SE score for the rig. -Gel -----Original Message----- From: cantrl. a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] heh, I haven't run any benchmarks. Here's a real-world example though - A common task of mine is to dump pictures from my digital camera into a folder and then run a batch process in my photo-editing program to generate thumnails for the entire directory. On the old comp it would take roughly 5 - 7 seconds for each photo. On the new comp it flips through them like shuffling a deck of cards - it's really fast. Games that used to not run well at 800x600 16bit color, textures turned down - will now run smoothly at 1024x768+ 32bit color, textures turned way up. With this board/processor - overclocking could also be in the picture with some faster PC3200 RAM, but I'm waiting on that. A Radeon9800 Pro could also turn this into a top performer, but that's still well over $300 even for the off-name brands. I'll run some 3D marks when I get home though - it would be interesting to see where this rig stands in the benchmarks. I know the P4 "800"Mhz FSB will blow it away in the marks, but the processor alone for that kind of rig costs more than my whole computer set-up - depending on which one you get. Adam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
