Building my own PC

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Some of you may remember that when I booted this PC up for the first time nothing happened till I swapped the RAM onto the other channels. I have swapped the RAM back to the original channels and it still works fine now
........btw, should I get another 1gig of RAM? Would it make any difference?

You might find that you have slightly higher latency.
Unless you do serious video editing or something like that then I wouldn't bother with the extra RAM - gaming doesn't need it yet.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Why, thank you Incog!
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I'll give it a go........
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Hmmmmm............5690 and it doesn't run all the tests......any suggestions Bif? .............Are you perhaps running an ATI GPU (if that would make any difference)

The benchmark of mine was run on a flashed X800 Pro running at higher clock speeds than the XT PE with an Athlon 64 3400 (running @ stock) on a ****y MSI K8N board. I haven't run it since I upgraded, here's the original url though http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=254626

If you're running an Athlon 64 4000 and a 6800 Ultra, I'd have expected you to get more, check you haven't got AA/AF enabled.

Originally Posted by Wayne A

The more RAM you have installed the better the PC will run and you'll be able to run more applications on it simultaniously.

Err, I think 1GB is enough. I have 1.28GB and my system never uses 800MB of it.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Bifta

The benchmark of mine was run on a flashed X800 Pro running at higher clock speeds than the XT PE with an Athlon 64 3400 (running @ stock) on a ****y MSI K8N board. I haven't run it since I upgraded, here's the original url though http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=254626

If you're running an Athlon 64 4000 and a 6800 Ultra, I'd have expected you to get more, check you haven't got AA/AF enabled.

AA & AF are 'application controlled'
...any idea why it doesn't run all the tests?
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Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Err, I think 1GB is enough. I have 1.28GB and my system never uses 800MB of it.

Originally Posted by Richard M

You might find that you have slightly higher latency.
Unless you do serious video editing or something like that then I wouldn't bother with the extra RAM - gaming doesn't need it yet.

What about what zingle said re the 64 bit?

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

AA & AF are 'application controlled'
...any idea why it doesn't run all the tests?
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What about what zingle said re the 64 bit?

World of Warcraft also needs boat loads of memory, far too much disk swappage with 1 gig.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...tion/top5.mspx

Upto 128 gigs worth (obviously for future use)

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

AA & AF are 'application controlled'
...any idea why it doesn't run all the tests?
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What about what zingle said re the 64 bit?

Some of the tests are only available in the retail version.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Bifta

World of Warcraft also needs boat loads of memory, far too much disk swappage with 1 gig.

.............Toddles off to buy more of the same memory
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Originally Posted by Bifta

Some of the tests are only available in the retail version.

So why the lowish score?

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

What about what zingle said re the 64 bit?

If you really want to get a performance boost try a Linux distro Actually, it would be nice to see what Doom3 for Linux would be like on your machine compared with windows.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

So why the lowish score?

Prolly because my card was clocked higher than yours, that's the only reason I can think of.

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

So why the lowish score?

lowish score .... pah, try those tests on mine, and prolly get about 2.

Originally Posted by Nemesis

lowish score .... pah, try those tests on mine, and prolly get about 2.

Not really, you got the 6800GT, you would at least get 1000.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Bifta

Prolly because my card was clocked higher than yours, that's the only reason I can think of.

The (presumably) CPU testing had the framerate in the 1's and 2's at some points
It was like 3DMark03 on my old PC

[Ramrod]

Then again, Rich scored 2458 on the '05......so maby my score isn't all that bad

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Then again, Rich scored 2458 on the '05......so maby my score isn't all that bad

Richard has a previous gen. card though, you have a next gen card, reputedly the top of it's class