On 24 Sep 2008, at 18:39, Stan Zaske wrote:
My old setup was an Epox NF4 Ultra mobo with an Athlon 64 FX55
running about 2.8 GHz and the upgrade has the Biostar 790GX/SB750
chipset and an Athlon 64 X2 5400+ BE running again about 2.8 GHz.
Both had the same 4850 video card and the same 2 gigs of RAM. The
only difference is between DX9 XP Home and DX10.1 Vista64 Home
Premium. Now I have yet to use the benchmarking utility for Crysis
(all patched up of course) but it ran smoothly enough at that
resolution and medium settings before that I had no problem getting
my crosshairs on the Koreans and fragging them. Now however it
visibly stutters and I attribute that to Vista and of course the 64
bit version has been widely reported to also be slower for gaming.
Hopefully more RAM will help. What kind of boxes do the rest of the
list members use for gaming?Gam
My primary box is
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 445Mhz FSB * 9 (4005Mhz or thereabouts) with a
Scythe Infinity bolted to it
Asus P5K-E/Wifi-AP mainboard, P35 chipset
4x2GB OCZ DDR2-800 dimms at 890Mhz (and rather shockingly rubbish
timings)
Gainward 8800GTX/768MB
Vista Ultimate x64
Display is a Dell 2408WFP and I have a Datacolor Spyder3Elite which I
wouldn't be without now that I've experienced the joys of a properly
calibrated display.
http://chryx.shacknet.nu/newdisplaysamecluttereddesk.jpg
I also run OSX on it for laughs :p (actually, it's probably in OSX 90%
of the time)
http://chryx.shacknet.nu/fettled.png
-JB
