New system all set up

[zhugeliang]

athlon 64 3200

1gig corsair pc3200

450 watt vantec psu

msi k8t neo

bfg 6800 oc 128

 

recommend any benchmarks? it runs far cry like magic

[Agozer]

Nice system. If you want a benchmark, get Doom 3.

Edited August 29, 2004 by Agozer

[Gryph]

I approve.

 

You can run 3DMark2003, that's a pretty good benchmark. But yeah, Doom III is the real test right now.

[zhugeliang]

yeah, i run doom 3 at ultra with aa at 2x screen resolution 1028 x 768

only lags for half a sec when opening doors but thats considered zoning, right?

[Wizard]

AA and AF are useless in Doom 3!

[Agozer]

AA and AF are useless in Doom 3!

Truth. Quite useless unless you actually see jaggies.

[Wizard]

Which only happens when you see screenshots!

[Gryph]

Antialiasing is useless in Doom III, but when you do High and Ultra settings it automatically does 8x Anisoptoric Filtering.

 

And the slowdown when opening doors is decompressing textures on the fly, I don't know if its called zoning. If you have the harddrive space (4 gigs+) unpack the pk4 files in the doom3/base directory and that slowdown should also disappear.

Edited August 29, 2004 by GryphonKlaw

[Shibathedog]

my friend has a similar system

 

P4 3.4GHz

GeForce 6800 256MB GT OC (from BFG)

1 gig of the fastest DDR RAM

Dont really know the rest

 

We hooked his PC up to his 60 inch widescreen Plasma HDTV and his 7.1 surround (hes got one of those fancy amps that converts anything to 7.1, and converting 5.1 to 7.1 works pretty damn well) It was the most awsome experience of my life. Now if only i could somehow do that on a rollercoaster or something...

[random guy]

Nice, very nice. Puts my comp to shame (I still love you, computer, don't worry).

[Shibathedog]

i still love my computer, my computer seems to be able to run anything BUT doom 3 on maxed out graphics at 1024X768 (at least, but i dont like going higher than that anyway)