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Athlon 3200XP pricing hits new heights

malc30 said:
tickle me elmo said:
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You are trying far to hard to recover from your first post. Just accept you are wrong and move on will you.
I have Never said i get 100fps constant.
You said we get 30fps with drops THIS IS WRONG for the last time.
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your attitude really sucks. you want to end any discussion with a "im right your wrong now **** off"

you will get dips in the fps AROUND the 30-40fps mark, as your so insistant that you dont... goto a karkand 64 server and fight at the hotel area with everyone else and grab a few screenies (especially when u got boned by an arty strike) with a fps counter running.
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No mate it is you that consistantly makes claims that are wrong and won't accept it.
I have a 3200XP i play 64 man maps. Trust me if i got any dips or spikes i wouldn't play it. The fact i have played so many hours must show that.
The reason you *** me off and get bad attitude from me is your original post was wrong but instead of just accepting this you have to continue.
Now i am sure it is you that will have the last word and twist your claims even further.
Myself i will ignore you now as you are odviously in a world of your own.
 
malc30 said:
No mate it is you that consistantly makes claims that are wrong and won't accept it.
I have a 3200XP i play 64 man maps. Trust me if i got any dips or spikes i wouldn't play it. The fact i have played so many hours must show that.
The reason you *** me off and get bad attitude from me is your original post was wrong but instead of just accepting this you have to continue.
Now i am sure it is you that will have the last word and twist your claims even further.
Myself i will ignore you now as you are odviously in a world of your own.
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alright then if it makes you happy... you know best... the fact that i had the same hardware means nothing... the people from here that told me changing from my xp to an opteron would stop min fps from going so low are liars...

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(i know you probably wont, being arrogant and all, but run fraps whilst you play bf2)




fini said:
handbags, ladies


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:D:D
 
Street said:
It was starting to struggle with games a year ago when I upgraded from it... Don't reckon it could run Oblivion very well now.
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i didn't notice a big hange swapping my XP3200 for an A64 3200. i am still convinced that a clean system, a clever setting of XP and a top card compensates for the A64 in large measure.
 
It does seem a bit crazy with the pricing of socket A kit at the moment. I have a 2500xp-m that does 2.6 @ 1.8V (more in it, the memory was maxxed out though), a 3200xp sitting at 2.4 (can't be bothered to clock more) and two NF7-S v2's. At that kind of money its worth "upgrading" my server to A64 and selling my old 2500 xp :D
 
Street said:
Sweet... I've got a 3200XP, NF7S2 and a 9800Pro sat under my desk doing nothing. Might have to sell them and rake in a small fortune:D
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The thing with the socket A cpu's can be explained with the classic cycle:

Everyone was on Socket A. Then 64bit was introduced. Socket A sales drop, and finally they stop producing them. For a while now it is all about 64bit.
However, a lot of people with limited funds will upgrade eventually. And they cannot afford swapping most of their system. So they want the best Socket A available. Hence demand is back, however availability is very limited.
In a capital market this equals mental prices :)

My Socket A history:
Athlon 900: bought new january 01, killed after two years by Parcel Force!
Athlon XP2200+: bought new february 03 for £45, sold july 04 for £45 inc MSI cheap mobo 1 year later.
Athlon XP2800+: bought used for £50 april 04, sold 13 months later for £80 (LOL)
Athlon XPM2500+ IQYHAA bought used from Concorde Rules a year ago in the MM for £55 inc SP90 HS. (hit 2.7ghz on air) Sold a two months ago together with my NF7S Rev2 for £150 (ROOOFL) :D

All of you with good clocking s939 would be wise in keeping them for the next cycle ;)
 
benjo said:
Fraps is pretty much down to hard drive speed, i very much doubt you can read/write to the same drive (or not) and get decent frame rates
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Correct :).

Fraps can record at whatever framerate your graphics card can render at, as long as you have a HDD to match.

Tickle Me Elmo - You're argument is pointless. I just read through this thread and was amazed at how much of a pointless point you're trying to push home. Whos going to know how Malc's pc runs BF2? I'd say Malc.. But maybe thats just me.
 
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benjo said:
Fraps is pretty much down to hard drive speed, i very much doubt you can read/write to the same drive (or not) and get decent frame rates
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ive got a fast harddrive :) , as long as you arent recording at silly res's like 1600x1200 then it does the job quite nicely.

@Naffa, i had the same stuff too, but my cpus were more powerful and didnt cut the mustard, a slower one is hardly going to be better is it ?
 
tickle me elmo said:
@naffa, i had the same stuff too, but my cpus were more powerful and didnt cut the mustard, a slower one is hardly going to be better is it ?
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How could you have had a faster socket A CPU? The fastest they did were the 3200, unless you overclocked yours.. which is unlikely as they just dont clock at all. You've said you had a 6800NU, which is slower than malcs x800xt-pe.. so i'm not sure what your getting at there..

edit: Also, what hard drive do you have?
 
benjo said:
How could you have had a faster socket A CPU? The fastest they did were the 3200, unless you overclocked yours.. which is unlikely as they just dont clock at all. You've said you had a 6800NU, which is slower than malcs x800xt-pe.. so i'm not sure what your getting at there..
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Owned.
 
benjo said:
How could you have had a faster socket A CPU? The fastest they did were the 3200, unless you overclocked yours.. which is unlikely as they just dont clock at all. You've said you had a 6800NU, which is slower than malcs x800xt-pe.. so i'm not sure what your getting at there..

edit: Also, what hard drive do you have?
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xp1700@2400mhz (min fps 35-40) and xpm2500@2500mhz (min fps 40-45)

the nu would be slower at 3dmark, i already said 1000points in that is 4fps difference at most. and bf2 uses a lot of cpu power, it doesnt need as much vid card power, hence why when i upgraded my cpu, the 6800 sat at pretty much 100fps constantly.

hdd: hitachi sata 2
 
i bought my xp3200 for around £150 easter 04... it's amazing that they're now selling for the same price again. not worth selling for me though, as it will make a loverly server and selling it wouldn't make me enough money to buy a new system :(
 
I dont think bf2 uses a lot of cpu power not on my settings anyway.

I accidentally halved my cpu speed the other day after changing something in the bios, normally its 2.4ghz it went down to 1.2ghz.

I was playing bf2 just like normal except at one point the fps did drop strangely low, I was playing an hour and only noticed once. It was at a certain angle with an APC in shot along with a couple other people (50 player server). The ATI tool fps counter lit up red to show 20fps, it was fine if I moved again ( I was capturing a flag)


I will be changing to a sempron cheapy 754 system soon so we'll see if its any better, it apparently overclocks by 1ghz easily. I realised the sempron system is faster and now cheaper then the socket a system, so Iam selling up despite this cpu clocking 2.6ghz on air while testing superpi


Also Ive run BF2 on a lightly clocked 1700xp (the mobo had no agp lock)


How many programs take advantage of 64bit code now, no games I can really think of

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