Is My New system any Good For Gaming

[sase_18]

Spec:P4 2.6C (HT) Mobo:Msi Neo2 512 ddr 423Mhz Gforce Fx 5200
(Bfg Tech) DDR:256MB Antec TruePower 480W 40Gb Maxtor 2Mb chane 7200Prm 200Gb Maxtor 8Mb Chane 7200Rpm Pci Ide Controller Four the 2 hdd 133/mbs Cd Cdrw Dvd....

[Ruffian]

All except for the videocard yea. Why dont you get an ATI 9600 Pro or XT

[grover]

Why are you getting a neo2 and P4C and not running 800MHz dual-channel DDR? Or do you mean to say you already have those components and you have a neo2 that doesn't support dual-channel?

At any rate, I hope that's good for gaming, cos it's practically the same setup I'm looking at That, and a GeForceFX 5900.

[sase_18]

Ruffian i know the videocard is not the best but i licke the extra 128mb on ram on it and it's no't a stock 5200.

grover yeah the mobo supports dual channel ddr but no cahs for a nother 512Mb of ram all get thet in e weak or so. And go ahed
get that system you plan will no't be dissapointed and this is a very nice mobo i recomend it to you.

[oORyanOo]

Originally posted by sase_18
Ruffian i know the videocard is not the best but i licke the extra 128mb on ram on it and it's no't a stock 5200.

grover yeah the mobo supports dual channel ddr but no cahs for a nother 512Mb of ram all get thet in e weak or so. And go ahed
get that system you plan will no't be dissapointed and this is a very nice mobo i recomend it to you.

That card isn't even powerful enough to take advantage of the 256MB of RAM

[Martin_89]

usually 256MB cards have slower memory

and do you mind me asking why you like the extra 256MB

[krupted]

im wondering if that 256mb card would play Sim City 4 better than mine. That game is the only game that gets SLOW on my pc. Resolutions at 1280x1024 and once the city starts to fill up a little past half the map, forget it gotta finish the game in 800x600

[sase_18]

Martin_89 Yah man I know the memory is slower its' new still
And the extra 128mb all need them fo future games.And a question for you Martin so you see any visual diffrence in the graphics of my card and Ex:Radeon 9700 i don't.



krupted
yeh man i know what you mean i play age of empires and if you turn all the bots on 8 of them The comp can get slow I think it's more a processor and memery issue rather than graphics

[krupted]

agreed, but if 3ghz aint enough, what is?

also, i notice when the map fills up, and you zoom out to the third level, the computer cannot physically draw all the detail in, it leaves many areas blurry im definitely not going to use less than a gig of ram anymore.......

[Martin_89]

Originally posted by sase_18
Martin_89 Yah man I know the memory is slower its' new still
And the extra 128mb all need them fo future games.And a question for you Martin so you see any visual diffrence in the graphics of my card and Ex:Radeon 9700 i don't.

but most games only use 64Mb at the moment so by the time that they are using 256Mb then the card will be slow compaired to whats out.

[sase_18]

yes Martin_89 i can't argue with you on that youre 100% right
When you think about it it is the same to get a 128 or a 256 card
If the extra 30 40 50 or 60$ don't efect you maby the bencmark whill be difrent but what you see on the screen whill be the same




krupted
3ghz is too much for any game I think the problem is in the game as it uses all the systems power on its AI(Artafisal Intelegance)
Not optemized too good i'd say

Ex:when had my P4 on 1.8ghz age of empires Whas sloooo
And with my P42.6 it's good so that 800mhz made a diffrence for me and the extra 256Kb L2 Chane so man i don't know what kind of machines they test thouse games on but shure whis i had one

[Martin_89]

Originally posted by sase_18
yes Martin_89 i can't argue with you on that youre 100% right
When you think about it it is the same to get a 128 or a 256 card
If the extra 30 40 50 or 60$ don't efect you maby the bencmark whill be difrent but what you see on the screen whill be the same

the benchmark that a 256Mb got would be slightly lower than what a 128Mb would get but the you would notice nothing when playin games.

[oORyanOo]

On a 5200, which is too slow to reach the high res/image quality where 256 MB is useful, you'd never notice the difference