I haven't been really computer savy for things faster than a microwave (Hence why I was an expert on my old computer), so I need help..


Processor is one of those nice 64 bit AMD athlon 3000 something something... dxdiag says it runs at 1.8 ghz, but DooM 3 runs extremely smooth.

RAM: 512 MB DDR. Nothing interesting here.

Video Card: Some 256 MB ATI Saphire thing. At least that's what the pamphlet said.

Sound: Pretty nice sound card. Has support for 5.1 surround sound which is nice.

Nice 17" flatscreen monitor.


So yeah..

I can't rate something if I don't know what's in it...


3000 something something....and a Saphire thing...

Decent, but not as good as mine. :p

From what your telling me, your system could run all the way from a 2 to a 5, on a scale of 1-5. In other words, MORE INFO. How can you not know any specs on the PC you just bought?

Er.. because I didn't buy it. I got it for christmas. Let's see, more info huh?

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
512 MB of RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 Sapphire (Or something of that sort) 256 MB

I'll give her a 3.5.

We'll be upgrading the RAM sometime this year (Who knows when), and then it'll kick butt. But yeah, it runs DooM 3 with no slow down during action things

sux. so do u. :p

The clock frequency has relatively very little to do with the overall perfomance of an AMD chip. Pay attention to the 3000 part, that's how fast it runs compared to a Pentium

Crank up the quality settings at 1280x960 and say the same thing :p

My friend has a better video card, more ram, and slightly faster processor and he doesn't even get good framerates at that res :p

I have the Doom 3 demo running at 1024 x 768 on High with AA all the way up. I get a pretty decent framerate. It's isn't always smooth by any means, but it isn't horrid. The only other side effect is that dialouge tends to skip a bit occasionally.

This is on my Atholon XP 2500 with 512 of Ram and a Radeon 9600XT with 128 mb of Ram.

In all honesty, I could kill the AA and never tell the difference. I don't claim to have the best performance ever, but it isn't awful. And if I can crank my settings up that high and get acceptable gameplay, surely he can.

I can.

You have a decent computer. BTW your sound card is probably integrated so it's not too hot.

I'll be upgrading in a few weeks to this:

AMD Athlon 3200+ (Clawhammer 754 CG)
EPoX 8KDA3J
512MB PC3200 (CL 2.5)
ATi Radeon 9800 non-Pro 128MB 256-bit (R350)

Now, this is not the greatest in the world. I plan on getting the DFI board, doubling the amount of RAM and using either BH5 chips or TCCDs. Also, I won't be overclocking until I do upgrade so no worries. The 9800 is already planned to be replaced by a 6800 GT :D. Funny thing is, this is all overkill for the games I actually play on a regular basis. Ah well.

Just remember that clock speed hardly means anything unless you're willing to learn just how much each is worth for each line of processor. You can get a comparison between clock speeds between the Athlon 64 and the Pentium 4 Prescott, but you'll have you count the AMD64's value as nearly doubled; in other words, a 1.8GHz Athlon 64 is almost as powerful as a 3.6GHz Pentium 4. The easiest, and most reliable way, though, is to ignore clock speed, as Intel just keeps lengthening the piplines on its chips to a ludicrous degree. It actually makes the chips perform worse (hence why a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 Northwood is all-arround more powerful than the new 3.0GHz Pentium 4 Prescott)

That chip is nice for the money; I happen to be using an Athlon 64 2800+. Overclocked from 1.8GHz to 2.0GHz, (making it effectively a Athlon 64 3100+ ) it is nice and powerful, particularly when couple with my ATI Radeon 9800XT. Yes, I do know I need to double my 512MB PC 3200 memory. However, no games seem to be showing evidence that the memory's not enough, save for perhaps the Half-Life 2 demo, which runs at 1024x768x32x6 at arround 50-60 fps, but seems sometimes laggy.

Haha, you're getting 754.

Seriously, Socket 754..outdated. You won't be able to upgrade past 3500+, which comes out sometime middle of next year.

Also, DFI boards have crap support--I wouldn't suggest them at all. Caveat emptor and all that.

my motherboard is some MSI K8T Neo2 (which is what the box says)

Oh wow. That's the exact same brand many people have been having problems with (including one guy, whose board went up in flames because of a faulty component)

I hope you encounter no trouble with it, and you may not, just telling you.

Yeah, like I said earlier, this is overkill for the games I play so upgrading through 939 is not really a necessity for me. Also, I'm getting a smoking deal. I've had good experience with DFI so far but what would you suggest? I like ASUS. The Gigabyte boards I've had have sucked some major ***. The MSI boards I've dealt with in a friend's computer were sooo bad. Now, should I keep the EPoX or go with a nice little Soltek? ASUS is another option but I'm frugal and ASRock... I haven't had any experience with them.

My PC sounds about the same specs as yours... if not a little higher, but my parents bought it a year ago... so what?

Upgrading through 939 would just eliminate the need of buying motherboards down the line. 939 is gonna be the next Socket A, and then some. It'll be around for a looooooong time. Besides that, there's nForce4 mobos out on 939, which makes it extremely stable (albeit you'll have to go PCI-E. Can you say 6600GT sir? Only 185!). There's a great 939 Asus board on newegg (search "Asus 939" and many a great Asus 754 boards.

You do have to be American to order from them though :\

My computer's better.

It's better than mine. I'd hit it.

...erm... wait.

*zap*

Add more RAM (I would double it to a gig): that's my only complaint.

Otherwise, potentially sweet rig.

Your comp is definatly cause for roudyness.