Your old Socket PC's still keeping up? (Socket 478 & 939) Users

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Primu$

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Hi I just wanted to ask some of you who havent jumped on the upgrading Qcore Dcore, AM2, X2 CPU band wagon, are your Computers still keeping up with todays games? For instance like crysis, COD4 ect. Im into FPS games.

What I'd like to do is just get an idea weather its time to upgrade or wait.

I would like you guys to post a simple specifaction of your system (Intel 478's And AMD 939's Only Please) then the games that you play and how well it performs from your perspective and at what resolution do you game on for example;

System Specs:
(In Sig)
My x850 will let me play games @ 1024-768 with avg 40-60 FPS

Or Simply just tell me your system specs with how well it plays for these fairly recent games.

Basically I just want to know if i can get by, just by upgrading to a new video card or to upgrade the whole system to play these recently released game titles.

Let me know How your old school computers are co-oping with todays demanding games.

Thanks for your info in advanced

Primu$
 
Specs are in my sig. I play TF2 at 1920x1200 with max settings and the frame rates are fine. I didn't get Crysis, but I was able to play the demo fine at 1280x1024 with medium/high settings (I didn't try to go higher so I don't know how the performance would have scaled). I also played The Witcher at 1920x1200 with only an occasional slowdown. I don't measure framerates, I just go by how the game plays and if it is choppy to tell if the settings are too high/low.

I don't doubt that upgrading to a C2D or C2Q would improve the gaming a bit, but I think the most important thing is the 8800GTX.

If you are looking for a cheap upgrade, getting a cheap 939 dual core and a 8800GTX would probably serve you well for gaming, especially if you are gaming at a lower resolution than I.
 
Thanks for the first post this helps steer me to upgrading< buts it not what I really want to do but may consider it to play these new games if neccessary
does anyhave a x1800 - x1900 in an old school setup (socket 939 or 478) that can vouche that they still get good Frames per second and use quality settings for these new games out.

Thanks

Primu$
 
From your sig, it looks like your best option would be to pickup a used 939 dual core and upgrade your graphics card. If you game at 1024x768, a 9600GT would suffice. The dual core will only help in games that take advantage of it. So if you're stuck on old engines, it won't help, but newer games do and will take advantage of it. Still, you'll see the most gaming improvement with a vidcard upgrade.

In my opty system, I get 100+fps in cs1.6 @ 1600x1200. In source I get 120+fps @ 1600x1200. Though, those are old games.

Sorry, I don't play games on my older systems... too lazy to install any, lol.
 
Specs are in my sig. The system is solid as a rock, runs my 24" Samsung at 1920 X 1200 very nicely, and is probably the best machine I've had to date. Sure, I'll upgrade, but the truth is that this old dog runs so well, I keep saying "....wait six months..."....:cool:
 
enginurd said:
From your sig, it looks like your best option would be to pickup a used 939 dual core and upgrade your graphics card. If you game at 1024x768, a 9600GT would suffice. The dual core will only help in games that take advantage of it. So if you're stuck on old engines, it won't help, but newer games do and will take advantage of it. Still, you'll see the most gaming improvement with a vidcard upgrade.

In my opty system, I get 100+fps in cs1.6 @ 1600x1200. In source I get 120+fps @ 1600x1200. Though, those are old games.

Sorry, I don't play games on my older systems... too lazy to install any, lol.
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Were you using the 7800gt Like in your sig? If so im open to upgrading to an older yet good preforming old school card to guys =)

BlindedByScience said:
Specs are in my sig. The system is solid as a rock, runs my 24" Samsung at 1920 X 1200 very nicely, and is probably the best machine I've had to date. Sure, I'll upgrade, but the truth is that this old dog runs so well, I keep saying "....wait six months..."....:cool:
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Nice rig! I also see that you have the 7800 card version too!

But I want to ask both of you, for the price of upgrading/buying this card (the 7800's ect model) off the forums or ebay or something would it be betetr to upgrade to the new cards like the 9600 Gt like you mentioned enginurd?
 
My brother has my old 478. It's a p4 2.8 ghz with 2 GB of ram on XP and a 7600GT. He doesn't game very much, which is why his system still holds up. But he plays a bit of CS:S now and then, which is a huge improvement for him from his old system of p4 2.4 and a 9700pro.

He did try out my copy of Bioshock after I finished with it, however, and was able to suffer through the sub 30fps on medium settings for the entire game. I would not have put up with it, but that's because I know better.

He uses the computer for many hours of day for non-gaming tasks so I'd say it's holding up quite well. I used to overclock the 2.8 to 3.2, but he took the speed back down to 2.8 because he would get random crashes in the middle of the night. I used to get these as well, but not as much as he claimed he would get.
 
I'm hanging in there with an athlon 64 x2 s939, I'd say the video card is quite a bit more important than the cpu still. Course my lcd monitor's native res is 1280x1024

I play CoD 4, assassin's creed, team fortress 2, audio surf, and wow. The latter two obviously don't require much anyways.
 
I assume your holding in the game with an old rig but with the recent model Radeon HD3850 256 mb video card right?
If so how much is that card?
may pick one up if it will be good for these newer games out. =)
 
The latest game I bought was BioShock and my main rig plays it pretty decent with medium settings.
TF2 plays pretty good with most settings set to high.

CoD4 played "ok" on my brothers AMD 3800+ with a 6800GT but plays fantastic with the new 8800GT he just bought.
 
Primu$ said:
I assume your holding in the game with an old rig but with the recent model Radeon HD3850 256 mb video card right?
If so how much is that card?
may pick one up if it will be good for these newer games out. =)
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Well do you have a PCI-E or AGP slot? If AGP, the HD 3850 AGP is around $190 IIRC. If PCI-E, get the 9600GT instead since it outperforms the HD 3850 yet costs the same as the PCI-E HD 3850:
eVGA 512-P3-N861-AR GeForce 9600GT 512MB PCI-E Video Card - $150

No there isn't an AGP version of the 9600GT out.
 
All helpful posts Thanks

Oh yea I do have PCI-E no AGP slot =)

Whats a good mid range card for Under lets say $80-$100? I havent been keeping up with the cards lately and dont want to review many so just want your thought/ suggestions for a mid ranged bang for buck card for $100 or less.

since i see the 9800 is out would the nvidia's 8600's be mid range atm? and whats it ati competitor for this card the 2600/2900? (sooo many models idk)

Thanks in advanced! just need help on the right decisions atm! =)
 
For $100? Probably the 8600GT, but if you want to play the latest games, you'll need something a bit more expensive, IMO. The lowest I'd suggest is the HD3850 or 9600GT.
 
Well The best card for that much would be the 8800gs. I got one and it is a pretty decent overclocker to. I got mine at 680 core and 1000mhz on memory and that isn't the max either I just stopped because that was enough for me. stock is 580 core and 700mhz on the memory. It is $129 but $30 mail in rebate. so $100 after rebate.thou your tmmv on its overclocking ability. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150275
 
Oh yah, forgot about the 8800GS, though its only $100 after a rebate.
 
peta328 said:
Well The best card for that much would be the 8800gs. I got one and it is a pretty decent overclocker to. I got mine at 680 core and 1000mhz on memory and that isn't the max either I just stopped because that was enough for me. stock is 580 core and 700mhz on the memory. It is $129 but $30 mail in rebate. so $100 after rebate.thou your tmmv on its overclocking ability. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150275
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Wow thats an OC beast! already gained 100mhz and 300mhz OC for the card, that pretty decent, Good looking out [H] Guys, Im going to see if i can find the card for $100 or less.

Thanks for the heads up on this latest tech stuff

Will be back with more Q's
 
My Athlon 3500+ with 1 gig ddr400 value ram and a 7600gs played TF2 and such fine, but I passed that along to my girlfriend.
 
filthysanchez said:
My Athlon 3500+ with 1 gig ddr400 value ram and a 7600gs played TF2 and such fine, but I passed that along to my girlfriend.
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Thats a good ol' rig too, havent played TF2 but it looks like a video demanding game as well? do u remeber roughly the average FPS you were playin TF2 at? and wat screen resolution?
 
Primu$ said:
Nice rig! I also see that you have the 7800 card version too!

But I want to ask both of you, for the price of upgrading/buying this card (the 7800's ect model) off the forums or ebay or something would it be betetr to upgrade to the new cards like the 9600 Gt like you mentioned enginurd?
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My (and my wife's) socket 478 systems are both AGP rigs. Some time back, the egg had some insane rebate on these cards that brought them down to something like $140.00 after MIR (which I got, BTW).

There may be faster AGP cards out there, but after these cards and a two GB memory upgrade in both our machines, I pretty much decided not to put any more money in our systems, until a full system upgrade happens. Both our machines run < really > well; plenty good enough to stave off the need for an immediate upgrade.
 
I play just about every new game out there with the system in my sig @ 1920 x 1200 all maxed settings and 16x aniso through nvcp.
AA is usually on to some degree from as little as 2x to 8x depending on the game.

I play cod4. Tf2. UT3. frontlines.Bioshock. assassains creed. r6v2. played crysis fist half of the sp all high at that res and was playable. second half was not.

Oh almost forgot still play bf 2142 a lot too with no issues.
 
Sorry, I missed the question BBS quoted... If you want to play Crysis and other newer games at higher resolutions/settings, get the 9600GT or 8800GT. If you don't mind lowering resolution/settings for newer games and don't want to play Crysis, get a used 7800GT, 7900GS, 7900GT, X1950GT, or X1950Pro for under $80 used.
 
ok, i can happily say, that i can play crysis (although practically unplayable at the end) on my server (specs in sig) at 800x600, which i reckon is pretty decent...
 
Socket 939 Athlon64 3800+ 2.4GHz
eVGA 7900GT 256MB PCI-e
2Gb Kingston DDR400
160Gb Seagate SATA
nForce4 Chipset

Runs crysis decently too! :p
 
With my current rig (see Main under sig), I can run any game out at 1152x864/1280x960 (with some form of AA/AF) as long as I fiddle with the options.
 
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