New rig = massive jump in performance

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Limp Gawd
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Well my last PC I built about 6 years ago. It has been running ever since without a problem. It was a 2600+xp with 1gb ram, about 3 years ago I had upgraded to the 6800. It ran things pretty decent, I play a star wars fps mostly so it was just fine. Well I finally decided my rig was way too old so I decided to upgrade. I had never experienced sata drives or 64 bit other than my macbook, or PCI express cards. I just got it all up and running. All I can say it HOLY ****. I haven't even overclocked anything yet too.

New rig = core 2 duo e6600
4gb g-skill ram
MSI 8800GT
320GB SATA
250GB SATA
500GB External
250GB IDE

Yeah lots of space now. ;)

I can't believe how much this thing screams compared to my old rig!!!! I can FINALLY play BF2 maxxed out on everything, that is like a dream in itself for me. I would always get owned repeadily with my laggy pos game on low settings. Now it looks gorgeous and doesnt have one bit of lag.
Now that I can play games with great FPS what are some good FPS games to play these days other than BF2. Part of the reason why I built this rig = UT3. :cool:w00t 1 week away!
This may not belong here but I felt the need to rant. :D
 
I upgraded from a 2001 Dell with a Nvidia MX420 and a P4 with only 768mb of ram to the system in my sig. It's fucking insane the difference. Running Grand Theft Auto at 500 fps, my old pc would only do 60fps.
 
ring.of.steel said:
call of duty 4
bioshock
doom 3
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Exactly...you gotta put that rig through it's paces now! It should be able to handle just about anything you throw at it. I upgraded to my current rig from one that was similar to you what you had, though I had an Athlon 64, and the difference for me was like night and day. Congrats on the new system!
 
let us not forget crysis...at least try out the demo :D

call of duty seems great so far...i havent gotten to get the full deal yet. Bioshock is a heck of an interesting game too....get ready to spend more on gaming than some of your hardware now :p
 
No joke, I'm gonna be broke!

Assasins Creed
COD4
UT3
Crysis

I'll be playing crysis demo when I get home from work.
 
Of course its a big jump, but its also a very good and necessary jump, considering today's computing improvements and progress. Quite a setup of hard drives you have there.
 
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