Hi
My brother got a new videocard (HIS radeon x850XT VIVO 256 AGPx8). Before he used a Club 3d radeon 9600xt 128mb agpx8. I told him that the HIS-card will be a major upgrade cause I looked at a lot of tests on the net including tom´s of course. (And even without the tests common sense tells me that a high end card in a newer generation should beat a middleclass card in a previous generation.) His rig before the upgrade was:
motherboard: asus a7v8x-x, via kt400 chipset
memory: 1024 ddr 333mhz
hd: 80gb(don´t know the model but probably 7200 rpm and 2mb cache)
cpu: amd 2600+(Thoroughbred) 333mhz fsb
Now. 3dmark 2005 after the upgrade was about 5400points. It sounds a bit low even though I know that vga charts often use either amd 64 fx-57 or at least amd 64 4000+ cpu´s. My question is. Is the cpu(amd xp 2600+) a bottleneck here and if so, will my brother gain considerable performance with an upgrade to xp 3000+ Barton (cause it´s the maximum possible upgrade for the mo´board)
The thing is that the differnces in gaming after the upgrade was much smaller than I thought(visually). He complained that he could run Far cry with high quality with his older card at 1024x768 at approximate 30 fps and now he gets around 45??? The maximum framerate in quake 4 and doom 3 on his system is 60 and that is propably cpu-limited. Is the 2600+ cpu so weak that his new videocard/which is the best card he can get on a agp-system(except 850xtPE which he can easily overclock too) is not a good buy with that weak cpu?
My brother got a new videocard (HIS radeon x850XT VIVO 256 AGPx8). Before he used a Club 3d radeon 9600xt 128mb agpx8. I told him that the HIS-card will be a major upgrade cause I looked at a lot of tests on the net including tom´s of course. (And even without the tests common sense tells me that a high end card in a newer generation should beat a middleclass card in a previous generation.) His rig before the upgrade was:
motherboard: asus a7v8x-x, via kt400 chipset
memory: 1024 ddr 333mhz
hd: 80gb(don´t know the model but probably 7200 rpm and 2mb cache)
cpu: amd 2600+(Thoroughbred) 333mhz fsb
Now. 3dmark 2005 after the upgrade was about 5400points. It sounds a bit low even though I know that vga charts often use either amd 64 fx-57 or at least amd 64 4000+ cpu´s. My question is. Is the cpu(amd xp 2600+) a bottleneck here and if so, will my brother gain considerable performance with an upgrade to xp 3000+ Barton (cause it´s the maximum possible upgrade for the mo´board)
The thing is that the differnces in gaming after the upgrade was much smaller than I thought(visually). He complained that he could run Far cry with high quality with his older card at 1024x768 at approximate 30 fps and now he gets around 45??? The maximum framerate in quake 4 and doom 3 on his system is 60 and that is propably cpu-limited. Is the 2600+ cpu so weak that his new videocard/which is the best card he can get on a agp-system(except 850xtPE which he can easily overclock too) is not a good buy with that weak cpu?