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Educated guesses are encouraged, especially ones from people that have made comparable switches recently.

What do you think the overall percent change of system/game performace would be with this switch would be???

System Now:
Athlon64 3200+ s754 (Clawhammer @ 1.55v)
Asus K8N8X-LA Mobo (Compaq OEM nForce3 mobo bleh!)
1gig pc3200 ram (Freq. 166Mhz - CAS latency 2.5 - 4-4-7-10) memory confuses me lol
Nvidia BFG 6800nu 128mb AGP pipes not (really) unlockable
Antec 430watt PSU
160gb Ultra DMA Hardrive
Creative Audigy 2 Value Sound Card
Compaq Case

Could be system:
Opteron 170 (Hopefully a high OC'er) with Zalman CNPS7000B-ALCU cooler
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI 939 board
1 gig of some sort of sweet Crucial Ballistix memory
1x 7800GT pci-e
500+ watt PSU
New fast hard drive
Creative Audigy 2 Value Sound Card
COOLER MASTER Praetorian 730 RC-730-SSN1 case

The overall questions stems from someone saying to me "dont rebuild unless you get at least double the performance."

Thank You and do not get caught up in the game/system details of the question, just say "ummmmm 20%.. and I personally rebuild to get a 50% gain in performance" lol
 
I'm thinking you're going to see at least a 30-40% improvement in frame rates alone with the 7800gt. Doubling is not really realistic, but I would this would be a pretty big improvement from what you have.

Your build is similar to what I'm considering, except i'm coming from a barton 3200xp -=)
 
I'm also upgrading to an Opteron 170... but 2GB RAM and a 7800GTX. I'm currently using a Barton 2500+ and a R9800 Pro :eek:
 
Battle_Rattle said:
The overall questions stems from someone saying to me "dont rebuild unless you get at least double the performance."
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That's a silly rule of thumb. Don't upgrade unless the benefits of that upgrade will be worth the cost. If all you are doing is surfing the web and reading e-mail and you've got a 1ghz duron system with 256mb ram, no upgrade would be worthwhile, even if the performance went up hunderds of percent for only hundered euros or so.

The essential question is not whether your framerates double, but if your enjoyment doubles. I am well aware of the fact that I could upgrade my computer and get huge performance boosts, but seeing as how this computer does run World of Warcraft fine, and that's the most demanding thing I do, I don't see the point. Framerates would increase, but I've played WoW on a better computer and the eyecandy and smoothness, while certainly noticable, didn't have a noticable impact on how fun the game was.

An important factor is also the enjoyment you get from the actual act of upgrading, and the knowledge that your computer is better.

If what you want is to simply rationalize an upgrade you've already decided to get, then sure, go ahead, but if you are actually trying to evaluate whether this upgrade is worthwhile, you are definately asking the wrong questions.
 
ilkka said:
That's a silly rule of thumb. Don't upgrade unless the benefits of that upgrade will be worth the cost. If all you are doing is surfing the web and reading e-mail and you've got a 1ghz duron system with 256mb ram, no upgrade would be worthwhile, even if the performance went up hunderds of percent for only hundered euros or so.

The essential question is not whether your framerates double, but if your enjoyment doubles. I am well aware of the fact that I could upgrade my computer and get huge performance boosts, but seeing as how this computer does run World of Warcraft fine, and that's the most demanding thing I do, I don't see the point. Framerates would increase, but I've played WoW on a better computer and the eyecandy and smoothness, while certainly noticable, didn't have a noticable impact on how fun the game was.

An important factor is also the enjoyment you get from the actual act of upgrading, and the knowledge that your computer is better.

If what you want is to simply rationalize an upgrade you've already decided to get, then sure, go ahead, but if you are actually trying to evaluate whether this upgrade is worthwhile, you are definately asking the wrong questions.
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You're reaction to the person saying to me "its not worth it to re-build unless performance doubles" is a bit confused....

The person was talking about re-building not upgrading. THeres a difference between the two.

Of course it's a no brainer to toss a video card if it's really lacking, but to total rebuild?

My question isnt confused at all... i asked for a simple percent change guesstimation

by the way ikka...whats your guess? 20% 30%?

Thanks again guys for the responses.
 
Well your 3DMark05 score would probably double, but as for real world performance it would vary a great deal. There is no single % value that is going to give you an accurate idea of the performance increase.
 
NKDietrich said:
Well your 3DMark05 score would probably double, but as for real world performance it would vary a great deal. There is no single % value that is going to give you an accurate idea of the performance increase.
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I know... thats why i said originally dont get caught up in the system/gaming questions.

Cmon guy lets not have Klingon moments .... just look at the crap and say "Ummm 30%" :D
 
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