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"Pentium 4 1.7GHz owners read this + any other ppl interested"

OK I want to see how my athlon XP 1700+ compares to a processor actually running at 1700MHz so could someone post their SiSoft SANDRA 2002 Pro CPU arithmetic and Multimedia benchmarks here, mine are:

Arithmetic

Dhrystone ALU: 4036 MIPS
Whetstone FPU: 2019 MFLOPS

Multimedia

Integer aEMMX/aSSE: 7914 it/s
Floating Point aSSE: 9282 it/s




(I’m quietly confident – looking close to P4 2.0GHz in comparison cpus)

Sigh

3DM isn't a CPU intensive benchmark. Look: Your CPU works out what the helll is going on each frame and tell the graphics card to render it. If your CPU can't figure out where all the bullets are flying etc on UT2K3 more than 20 times a second, no matter WHAT res or WHAT effects or WHAT card is doing all this, you *can't* get more than 20fps. This is why my box 0wnz ruari's at UT2K3 :-)

aha, here we go:
go to http://service.madonion.com/servlet/Index?pageid=/orb/ projectsearch and search for results for a Radeon 9700 Pro using a 1000MHz processor.
(You have to be a member) As you will see the top results are past the 9000mark which should be more than enough to run any game in 1024x768 nowadays

Turbonutter wrote:
> Memorandum wrote:
> It really depends on what your definition of quite low is, for me
> 50fps is more than enough and I'm sure an R9700 pro could handle
> this
> nicely even on a 1ghz machine
>
> 50fps on what? Either way I doubt it on anything recent.



All I mean is i'd say that in any game 50fps is more than enough, game running at 100fps is just stupid and even with a 1ghz bottleneck a graphics card as powerful as an r9700 pro should be able to come out pretty well

18.4gbs bandwidth - i want one

(drools over himself)

Memorandum wrote:
> It really depends on what your definition of quite low is, for me
> 50fps is more than enough and I'm sure an R9700 pro could handle this
> nicely even on a 1ghz machine

50fps on what? Either way I doubt it on anything recent.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> Anyway, I have a GeForce 3 64MB card, and it handles everything just
> nicely, thankyouverymuch.
>
> I run all my games at 1024x768 (anything higher is overkill) in 32-bit
> colour (when available), and all purrs along quite nicely.


Which GF3? I have a GF3 Ti500 running at about Ti4200 speeds, and yeah, I do 1024 as well. Well, except in Counter-Strike, 1600x1200 or nothing :)

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> Anyway, I have a GeForce 3 64MB card, and it handles everything just
> nicely, thankyouverymuch.
>
> I run all my games at 1024x768 (anything higher is overkill) in 32-bit
> colour (when available), and all purrs along quite nicely.

Yeah, me too Wookie. I'm actually going to switch to P4 this Christmas - although the Athlon is generally faster like for like, the P4 makes less heat and therefore needs less of a noisy fan to cool.

It really depends on what your definition of quite low is, for me 50fps is more than enough and I'm sure an R9700 pro could handle this nicely even on a 1ghz machine

Anyway, I have a GeForce 3 64MB card, and it handles everything just nicely, thankyouverymuch.

I run all my games at 1024x768 (anything higher is overkill) in 32-bit colour (when available), and all purrs along quite nicely.

Well, you're mistaked then. A 1ghz CPU would be an extreme bottleneck for the R9700P, it just can't push data to it fast enough. Sure, you could have max resolution and all the effects (8xFSAA, 8xAnis etc) but your FPS would still be quite low.

no its not a lie


i said a good enough graphics card

as in a Radeon 9700 Pro.....