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AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor
Mainboard , 2000MHz SB, IEEE 1394, SATA
1024MB DDR 400 RAM Memory
300GB Serial ATA (150Mb/s) Ultra Fast Hard Drive
256MB nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 - TV-Out - DVI
17" TFT Flat Panel LCD Monitor
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-RW (R/W all standard formats)*
5.1 Surround Sound 6 Channel Audio
Creative Labs Soundblaster SBS260 Stereo Speakers
Only thing worrying me here is the Geforce FX 5500 card. I'm going to be playing alot of games on this thing, yet I just read a review this card isn't one of the best performers for games.
Was looking at a Radeon 9800 XT or something hmmmmmm.
So I have Doom 3 here, if I stick it in on that thing will it still look pretty or erm...run?
Enermax 520 watt quad fan PSU
Abit AV8 Deluxe
Athlon 64 FX53 at FX55 2.6GHZ
2GB Corsair XMS3200XLPRO
2 x 36.6GB Western Digital Raptor drives in RAID 0
X800 XT Platinum Edition
Audigy 2 ZS
Creative i-trique 3600 2.1 Sound System
52X Lite-On DVD Writer
48X Sony DVD Drive
Razer Viper mouse
Ideazon Zboard
And price, please... I currently earn about £50 a month, so just thinking ahead.
I have only just finished modding it and everything is there now for me to just buy any game, lob it in the drive knowing that I can play it on top whack without frame rate issues and the like.
> What you call good settings and what I call good settings are clearly
> two completey different things.
Most probably.
So what's it for you now, dual Xeon Processors and some SLI Graphics?
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> It's no longer a Geforce FX 5500, it's a Geforce FX 5700 LE.
>
> Worth phoning up and saying "Oi, change that for me I paid the
> same price", or not?
Ok Until I saw this post I didn't even know of the existence of an FX5500, FX5600 yes. Beware the "LE" designation, that often signifies a cut down card..
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> Clock for clock means instuctions per cycle!
>
D'oh Im going to have to find a new expression for that :-(
Biggles, what is it you do again? How come you know much about damn processors? Impressive (with reference to last post and many other insightful ones...)
> That 3500 will take out any (stock) Intel desktop processor currently
> out, because although clock for clock the Intels are faster, the AMDs
> do much more work per cycle...
Clock for clock means instuctions per cycle!
Intels do have a faster clock though, with some parts of the core running at twice the nominal core speed. Yes that means that the uber elite overclocked P4s had parts of their core running at 12 GHz. Which is pretty damn fast.