Swimmer Posted December 18, 2003 CID Share Posted December 18, 2003 One of my friends and I are going to benchmark our systems. It is an eMachines vs. a custom. My specs(custom) Shuttle ak32a 320 mb ram pc-133 (256+64) 40gb Western Digital 7200rpm ATI Radeon 32mb pci graphics card(dont laugh!!) AMD 2000+ Athlon not over clocked 266 bus L1 128kb, L2 256kb, 1.67ghz Windows 2000 pro sp4 My Friends Specs ( eMachines T2542) Microsoft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted December 18, 2003 CID Share Posted December 18, 2003 HAHAHHAHA, Emachines ... Sorry but the XP 2000+ will blow the celeron out of the water. Don't get an Nvidia 5700 ~~ get a Radeon 9800 or a 9800 pro, I have personally benchmarked the 9800 & 9800Pro, 5700 and 5900 ~~~ nothing can touch ATI's higher end cards... NOTHING! Here are a couple of posts i have written... http://www.testmy.net/forumz/viewtopic.php?p=103&highlight=9800#103 http://www.testmy.net/forumz/viewtopic.php?p=435&highlight=9800#435 I run an AMD 2100+ ... and swear by AMD and ATI both, My 2100+ is old news right now (got it a very long time ago) but still I have yet to see any of my friends and co-workers touch my performance, some of them have 2.5-3GHz P4 machines (and my chip is only running at about 1.7GHz, I have 1Gb of ram, Asus board and Radeon 9800 Pro) ~ Stick with AMD and ATI they will never let you down. If you do get a lower end card though (in the $100-$130 range) I would get a NVidia card, they do have that market pretty locked down. By the way... get yo azz some DDR memory BRA! ~~~ You can't even image the difference! And stop mixing and matching memory chips, you need to have 128/256/512/1024 ~~ keep it uniform and your system will benifit ... take out the mis-matching 64MB chip you have in there and run with 256MB, you will see a difference even though you will have less memory, the computer will be able to write to the RAM easier. (I would persoanlly just make key chains out of all that old memory and get ONE nice 512MB - that will dramatically boost you ~~ even more if your board can take DDR and you get yourself a 512 DDR) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted December 18, 2003 Author CID Share Posted December 18, 2003 Thanks!! I was thinking about upgrading to about 512-1gb of pc2100 ram( my mobo supports both) but didnt think that it would help that much! what brand of ram are you running in your machine?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted December 18, 2003 CID Share Posted December 18, 2003 corsiar (think that's how you spell that ) ~~ and trust me it will help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted January 8, 2004 CID Share Posted January 8, 2004 Sweet Company check it out swimmer http://www.corsairmicro.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted January 8, 2004 CID Share Posted January 8, 2004 Corsair memory ROCKS! Just about the only memory I will use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 8, 2004 Author CID Share Posted January 8, 2004 i did check them out.... They have discontinued making the high end pc2100 ram. Old tech i guess. I think that i will buy a stick soon just to see what it can do in my machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 10, 2004 Author CID Share Posted January 10, 2004 After reading this post my friend decided that benchmarking wouldnt be as much fun as he thought. Since then he has bought a BFG Technologies FX5200 256mb PCI graphics card. Saddly he doesnt have an AGP port for this new card. I guess that is what you get for $400... I on the other hand have done nothing to my setup. I am thinking about getting some OCZ ram at pc2100. If you want to see a sweet setup check out the build it faster post in the Overclocking/Product Feedback. Lorne is building a Pimputer based around the Amd 64bit processor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted January 11, 2004 CID Share Posted January 11, 2004 Swimmer Man you have a way nicer comp than me and I'm 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 11, 2004 Author CID Share Posted January 11, 2004 Thanks! You soon will be able to hand me my smoking remains with the pimputer. I have CDW, Tigerdirect and a mom and pop shop all local so it is kinda nice.. I have connections so i get good equipment for cheap. I will post a pic of my setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted January 11, 2004 CID Share Posted January 11, 2004 Swimmer I might be able to hand you smoking remains now but i bet in a couple of years there won't be enough left of mine to hand over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiorchis Posted February 22, 2004 CID Share Posted February 22, 2004 WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T GET AN AN7 (yet)!!! The AN7 has HUGE issues right now due to it being in it's first revision. I mean, look at the NF7, this is it's 3rd revision and they still have problems with somethings. For the AN7 things range from uGuru being ubber gay and not working right to no sound at ALL to poorer performance than it's sibling NF7. Just don't get an AN7, and the uGuru isn't even worth it, it takes the fun out of overclocking it manually . And on a side note, the athlon will smoke the celeron out of the water. Pure and simple. Hell the athlon will probably beat the P4 of same speed (non celeron). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted February 22, 2004 CID Share Posted February 22, 2004 Hey Mort where you been Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiorchis Posted February 22, 2004 CID Share Posted February 22, 2004 Nowhere special...my internet is really crappy, and I don't mean like 1mbit crappy I mean my max dl is 4 kb/sec and 330bps upload. ON CABLE! Friggen mediacom better get off their asses to fix it though. And I've had mass homework and approaching AP tests to go for so...yah it's hell... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted February 22, 2004 CID Share Posted February 22, 2004 4 KB/sec dl wtf Man I would be pissed to. Tests suck man, I remember the harder I studied it seemed like the worse I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 22, 2004 Author CID Share Posted February 22, 2004 You might want the cable company to install a booster on you line!! That is almost the exact same problem that I had with comcast!! THey installed the filter and my connection was back to stable. They added to many people to the line and I then got shafted as a result! But now I am all better. ::: Download Stats ::: Connection is: 4401 Kbps about 4.4 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is: 537 KB/sec Auth Code: 2066016 (validate a http://www.testmy.net) Bottom Line: 79 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 1.91 second(s) Validation Link :: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/auth_check.cgi?ta=&top=&num=2066016&kbps=4401&gen=gen&a=12.5714285714286&b=0.571428571428571&c=1145.14285714286 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted February 22, 2004 CID Share Posted February 22, 2004 Yeah I would say you are all better, nice speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sin0cide Posted February 23, 2004 CID Share Posted February 23, 2004 My next chip is going to be a P4 I don't like celerons but I am leaning more and more towards the P4 if you look at the specs of overclocking a p4 vs a AMD then its just insane. I am done with all the glory of having what ever he said she said crap. Not many people can really say one way or the other because they have only had one or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiorchis Posted February 23, 2004 CID Share Posted February 23, 2004 Hey, the P4 can hit speeds of 4.6 ghz with prometeia! AMD certainly can't do that, but thats why AMD has Athlon64's. Just don't expect to hit that speed with an EE model P4... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 23, 2004 Author CID Share Posted February 23, 2004 Personally I dont like intel... AMD does have a 64-bit chip... but it isnt the first!!! The Apple G5 had the first 64bit chip. Now one made a big deal about it but now since the windows users have 64bit it is huge... I am not a fan of Apple because Apple cant do anything other then video editing and mutimedia production. As for which chip I would use.... The same chip that is on the pimputer accept I would wait till winchester comes out for the 939 platform. This release will add the speed of the 64bit processor along with the speed of Dual channel!!! So until Intel reveals or decides that the consumer needs to have 64bit AMD, to me, is the current way to go. So far AMD is the only chip manufacturer that has released a roadmap and some detailed specs about the upcomming processors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiorchis Posted February 23, 2004 CID Share Posted February 23, 2004 Besides, Intel is having issues with increasing the speeds of their processors, especially with heat and such with only a stock heatsink. They've even said themselves that they're running out of ways to boost the clock speeds on modern architectures; and AMD has similar scores to P4, but with a lot lower clock speed...(P4: 3.2ghz, AMD: 2.4ghz). Put the 2 at same clocks and amd will SMOKE p4. And nobody made such a huge hype about Apple's first 64bit cuz the amount of people using apple is a LOT less than people using x86 platforms... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 24, 2004 Author CID Share Posted February 24, 2004 Yeah no kidding... AMD might not be able to over clock like an Intel but they dont need to. They can beat most of the Intel chips stock. Remember once the 64bit processor becomes standard I think that the chip will be come more overclockable. The current chips are based on the server chip. Which is not made to be overclocked! I think we can expect some great things from AMD in the near future!!! I mean some really great thing! We will see if Intel ups the release date for their 64bit processor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sin0cide Posted February 24, 2004 CID Share Posted February 24, 2004 Well I have never had a P4 but I have had alot of AMD's and to be frank with you the P4 with a northbridge is in my choice over the AMD XP and probley MP for that matter I havn't seen enough on the P4 extreme edition or the AMD's 64 bit to decided between the two... but yah AMD does not exactly have a good reputation of being to hot either... I have seen way to many AMDs fry as well... once again I mean the numbers sway towards P4's but I personally want to see myself... alittle bit of info for when your on the pot... (Because its pretty long) so print it out and use it for TP afterwards... I might have missed something so you guys tell me what you think... http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031223/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted March 30, 2004 CID Share Posted March 30, 2004 Nice computer. I have a link on www.wahck.com/wahcklinks.html to do a kickass video benchmark. Check it out some time and tell me the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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