Wednesday, February 14, 2007

New PC

So I finally upgraded my game box. I was using an Opteron 148, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7800GS AGP. The new system is an Athlon64 X2 5200+, 2GB RAM, and (2) NVIDIA GeForce 7900GT 256MB PCIe cards (running in SLI mode). I spent very little on the upgrade, staying below the "knee" in the price curve where things get expensive quick.

I figured it would give me about a 30% bump in CPU speed (just for the one core, not counting the 2nd core). But according to 3DMark06, the new box is a screamer.

Old: 2918 3DMarks
(1263 SM2 1247 HDR 835 CPU)

New: 7576 3DMarks
(3401 SM2 3280 HDR 1985 CPU)

So I'm very pleasantly surprised for being a mid-range upgrade.

Labels: 2007, Benchmarks, NVIDIA

posted by Wuphon's at 9:32 PM