After 5 years of being stuck on an old Pentium 3 667 MHz and 192 MB RAM I decided it was about time to upgrade...well, to change the machine.
I was very skeptical about AMD and their capabilities although benchmarks showed it as an incredible machine, despite having less cache and operating frequence than the Prescotts. So at the end I bought an AMD 64 3200, 512 MB RAM DDR 400 and a NForce 3 mobo.
It might sound like shit but well...my budget was shit...About 400. I kept the original 10 GB HD, and the old GF 2 MX...At least for now.
I didn't expect it to be very fast and overall I didn't expect to be surprised (at work I use a Northwood 2.6 GHz).
The thing is that yesterday I decided to do my OWN benchmarks, with things I really appreciate. Mainly computer emulators.
The first I tried was Viva Nonno. On my old PC it ran at 30 fps with a lot of drops. I started it and was wopped by constant 100 FPS. Not bad
Then I proceeded to Chankast and choosed to play Jet Set Radio, of Course Then I have to say I was very impressed because I was able to play it at the original 30 FPS without drops...WTF ??? Jet Set Radio ? On my PC ? Yay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have yet to do strong CPU dependant things such as encoding but so far this CPU has convinced me. Great performance
I was very skeptical about AMD and their capabilities although benchmarks showed it as an incredible machine, despite having less cache and operating frequence than the Prescotts. So at the end I bought an AMD 64 3200, 512 MB RAM DDR 400 and a NForce 3 mobo.
It might sound like shit but well...my budget was shit...About 400. I kept the original 10 GB HD, and the old GF 2 MX...At least for now.
I didn't expect it to be very fast and overall I didn't expect to be surprised (at work I use a Northwood 2.6 GHz).
The thing is that yesterday I decided to do my OWN benchmarks, with things I really appreciate. Mainly computer emulators.
The first I tried was Viva Nonno. On my old PC it ran at 30 fps with a lot of drops. I started it and was wopped by constant 100 FPS. Not bad
Then I proceeded to Chankast and choosed to play Jet Set Radio, of Course
Then I have to say I was very impressed because I was able to play it at the original 30 FPS without drops...WTF ??? Jet Set Radio ? On my PC ? Yay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have yet to do strong CPU dependant things such as encoding but so far this CPU has convinced me. Great performance