AMD Processor Advice

Devorikk said:
Howdy folks!

Thanks for all of the responses! I think in my near future (when M2 comes out and price drop occurs), the Opteron 170/175 will be purchased.

I spent the entire weekend working on my system with a good buddy of mine, and came to a conclusion. The EVGA 7800GTX 256 sucks. With the system exactly as it states in my sig, I was scoring ~7850 on 3DMark05, and experiencing some choppiness with Battlefield 2 at 1280x1024 with everything on high. This isn't what I expected from a ~$500.00 investment.

Taking Pandora's advice, we went ahead and OC'd the 3500+ slightly to 2.4ghz and the video card up to 500/1300. After that we tested again (stable) but got absolutely NO DIFFERENCE on the 3DMark05. I wasn't expecting much of a CPU score increase, but definitely graphics. It's almost like that video card is locked or governed.

Regardless, I'm pretty disappointed, but maybe I shouldn't be. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!
--Dev
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that's approximately what i get.
 
You get the same scores I am getting but you have a 3000+ !!!

I decided to send back the 7800gtx and pick up an X1900XT :) Hopefully it's the right move.
 
The X1900 series is a strong series for ATI. Nothing is faster right now in most games.*

The X3: Reunion Demo thread surprised the hell out of me with all the X1900 results posted.





*this is coming from a long-time NV user. I am very impressed with ATI new products.
 
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