If you mind me asking, what do you do at work? High End graphics cards are so powerful now that the bottleneck hits the CPU. I've heard people with FX-53 systems that get bottlenecked by their CPU in the game Far Cry when they use the new X800XT PE. I also hate those people who complain about it. (I have a ti4600)
Correct. And being the Graphics Reliability Engineer, I recently qualified the next generation of PCI-E 9800 cards from ATI. They haul serious ass.
His card isn't that bad, I mean its a solid DX9 midrange card. He said it was for work so I'm guessing he doesn't play games with it so its seems ok...
I have put all computer upgrades on hold until PCI Express hits the market and prices/products stabilize. Socket 939, FX-55 or Athlon64 4000+ and a PCI-E video card sounds good around Jan 2005.
I'm a software developer (mostly VB and SQL), but I also process a lot of client data in SQL Server. I considered ATI, but I recalled that my ultra-picky motherboard had some caveat re ATI boards, so I shied away.
I don't manage any of the benchmarking, but I can tell you that it can be overclocked well past the 500MHz core frequency it's set at right now. If you have the right cooling solution, I'd say go for it.
PCI-E will hit the market very soon. And you'll probably see a price break around Christmas time. But the config you listed sounds like a kickass system, esp. with the 64bit Athlon.
Does the 64 bit Athlon work ok w/ 32 bit programs? Isn't there a concern with the 64 bit Opteron and software? I was told the Opteron does not have a 32 bit emulator.
The Opteron chips run 32 bit and 64 bit programs. Opteron's are such a good value because they are essentially FX chips.(Model numbers that start with 1, means you can run them sigle processor) You can save around $250 by getting them over the FX chips. The downside is socket 940 and registered ECC RAM. The new FX Chips will work with socket 939 and regualar unbuffered RAM. Opteron 148 = FX-51 Opteron 150 = FX-53 AMD XP Mobile chips are a crazy deal too. A 45 watt XP mobile for $88 on newegg can get overclocked easily to 2.4ghz with air cooling. The chips are the cream of the crop XP's and they sell them cheaper then regular XP chips to try to make headway into the laptop market dominated by Intel.
So I was a day late but I'm posting from my new PC and it is awesome!!! I think you guys should setup a BBS pool to see when I'll ask about my first problem with the new system!
I've got my first problem with my new system, and it's one of the same that I had with my old system, yet all of the hardware is new! I was reinstalling all of my software when suddenly they start locking up...no error messages. Actually some lock-up (cannot move dialog), while others just sit there ... forever. Someone's piece of s*** software breaks the subsequent installs and it's very d*mn irritating!
So it has already happened...after getting my computer together and reinstalling the software I had before and then using the computer for an hour, my computer keeps restarting then I get a message about my ATI graphics driver and it says something has gone wrong and to send ATI an error report. It then said restart so I guess I better restart and see if it works.
I have some sort of dam Spyware on my computer. I keep setting my browser's homepage as yahoo.com but it never stays there it goes to about::blank whenver I close out the browser and open it back up and some website that has Search For: and then a pop up window comes and says my computer is infected with spyware. I already have Spybot but it removed everything it found. Any suggestions?
What the hell is wrong with you man?! did you restart your pc after removing the spyware? are you using IE6? so let me get this straight: you set your homepage to yahoo.com and instead it sets itself to about:blank, correct? and then when you open the browser back up you get that popup? also try using http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ for your browser its free, neat and organized
