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[marscay]

crank up the filtering and the gpu becomes the bottleneck again

a 2.8ghz a64 is plenty fast enuff for a single 8800

although you'd prolly get more out of the card with a better monitor ...24"

 

[Phil2008]

crank up the filtering and the gpu becomes the bottleneck again

a 2.8ghz a64 is plenty fast enuff for a single 8800

although you'd prolly get more out of the card with a better monitor ...24"

About 2 months ago I bought a HIS X1900XT card and clocked it to the xt-x version. So getting a new card so soon after buying the x1900xt card seems a tad of a waste of money

But its great to know that my cpu isnt dead any buried just yet, cos I been wanting to get 2gb of ddr1 mem for it but I need to change my 2x 512 sticks to 2x 1gb… ppl say it’s a waste of money, but what do you think? I guess it all depends how long my fx will keep going for?

 

[Phil2008]

Plus my fx55 is a clawhammer,, the clocking 2.78 isnt great but it runs super cool. 31-32c idel and about 48c full load and thats with a stock heatsink/fan. So its quite a cool fx55 cpu

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

For a clawhammer that's a pretty decent clock speed and some reasonable temperatures! What cooling are you using on that?

 

[setter]

would my athlon 64 4000 be ok with a 8800gts, the cpu is at stock speed but im thinking of overclocking it

 

[Antx777]

Some Benchmarks here from a very recent review on "Firing Squad" (Mods, is a direct link to Firing squad allowed)??

Quote

Intel’s latest Core 2 CPUs are based on an entirely new micro-architecture, with a wider execution core, 1,066MHz FSB and unified L2 cache architecture with up to 4MB on-chip. As a result, Core 2 delivers substantially more performance than any previous processor from AMD or Intel, including AMD’s flagship Athlon 64 FX-62.

This makes the Core 2 Extreme X6800 we tested with in our GeForce 8800 Performance Preview article an excellent companion for NVIDIA’s latest GeForce cards, but what about the millions of AMD users out there? Is the GeForce 8800 GTX still capable of outrunning the Radeon X1950 XTX by a factor of 2X on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+? What about the 5000+?

Many of you have asked us this very question, and today we’re here to provide some answers. We’ve included AMD CPUs ranging from the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ all the way up to the Athlon 64 FX-62 to see how the GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS, as well as ATI’s Radeon X1950 XTX scale with these CPUs… Unquote

I Own a FX-55/Clawhammer, and now this is very interesting - would an FX-55 be faster than a 4600+? - whether gaming or benches?

-Ant

 

[Antx777]

would my athlon 64 4000 be ok with a 8800gts, the cpu is at stock speed but im thinking of overclocking it

I think, personally, that even without a Conroe 6600/6700, the power of this card (GTS or GTX) would give such great performance boost, even if you don't have big 3D marks in return. EVERYTHING will be playable on this/these card(s), its just that you won't get (example) "120 frames" (CONROE) but perhaps 90 (Athlon) Do the slower benchmarks, and "not-so-slower" game speeds make up for the fact that you don't have to upgrade mobo/ram/cpu - for such gains?


Also, DX10 games like Crysis are going to be GFX intensive aren't they - and not CPU?. I also read somewhere that a quad core Conroe E6700 even bottlenecks on these cards (8800GTX)- and only 80% of the card is being used......


quote:
"""""
The GeForce 8800 cards scale much better under F.E.A.R., even with a slower CPU like the X2 3800+. This bodes well for the GTX under more shader-intensive titles we’re likely to see in 2007 such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament 2007"""""Unquote

..Also: Quote

"""""In shader-heavy titles like Oblivion and F.E.A.R. however the GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS were never CPU-bound. In fact in our foliage test with Oblivion we were 100% GPU-bound, whether we were testing with an X2 3800 or the FX-62, performance was the same across all resolutions, including 1280x1024!"""""""

unquote

I was "Oblivious " to that last quote before I read the review.. now though, however


-Ant

 

[ZUTON]

You still have plenty of life left in your FX55 and the 8800 should be a good match , i will be getting a 8800GTX with my FX57

 

[Phil2008]

For a clawhammer that's a pretty decent clock speed and some reasonable temperatures! What cooling are you using on that?

Im just using the stardard heatsink/fan that came with my fx55. Yes a fx55 has a hiigher stock speed then a x2 4600+

 

[Phil2008]

Ive got another 2 or 3c of my cpu cos Ive just cleaned my heatsink/fan, now my idel temp is 29 -30c, I might be able to get it down to 28c if my room was a tad cooler

Dont wrorry about the 71c its been reading 71 -72c for 2 years now, and it would have blown up by now, if something was 71-72c

 

[Phil2008]

When i first had my cpu, I had it in a coolermaster wavemaster case, and I still do..
2yrs ago when I first had me fx55 cpu, the idel temp was 45c, the load was 60c and the psu felt really warm though the case and hot air blew out of the psu... I had 2 6800gts then too.

What solved the prob, was a 120mm fan inbetween the graphics cards to blow air over the 2 cards and sum holes in the side of the case for the fan to pull in the air in. Thats knocked my cpu idel temp to 38 - 40c, and the load was no higher then 52c

Then I swaped the silver waver master for the black version, and I did the side fan properly, cut a hole out and slapped a black grill on the side. That brought the cpu temps down another 2c or so.

Then I got a HIS X1900XT card,, and that knocked another 3c off

I havent touched the heatsink/fan at all just de dust it every few months with a paintbrush and air.

 

[Phil2008]

so in 2 years without touching the standard heatsink/fan that came with the FX, ive managed to knock off about 17c.