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How many GHz is your CPU?

Less than 500Mhz
500Mhz to 1.0Ghz
Greater than 1.0Ghz to 1.5Ghz
Greater than 1.5Ghz to 2.0Ghz
Greater than 2.0Ghz to 2.5Ghz
Greater than 2.5Ghz

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How many GHz is your CPU?
This includes overclockers. Please list whether you're overclocking and if it's just for fun or you are actually using the added performance.

Hopefully everyone could list whether they feel they want to upgrade, and need to upgrade. Anyone feel the slowdown of their current CPU?

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I have a 1Ghz AMD Thunderbird.

I have no desire to upgrade yet and the only time I felt that it was slow was while Divx encoding a movie. In the end though I felt that the software was more cumbersome than the speed so I'm waiting for the software to get a little easier to use. I felt like it was hit and miss when it came to setting up the program to encode a movie. Hopefully it will be better by the time I upgrade the CPU.

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Reply to dhlucke

Looks a lot better now. I have a 1.0 GHz PIII Coppermine. It works for now but once I have the money I will upgrade, rendering takes forever on a 1Gig machine, hehe.

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Reply to icy_oblivion

I have a 1GHz AMD Duron. I was waiting for the Hammer, but now I'm not so sure.

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Reply to WingDing

Why is that?

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Reply to Jake75

Because of the delays and uncertainty about when the damn thing will actually be available. It takes a lot longer for it to arrive in Ireland after it's been released in the US. I still can't get a Radeon 9700 Pro in either Ireland or UK, just to give you a sense of how much longer it takes for new hardware to land in our shops.

I'll probably still wait as I want the upgrade path and by then hopefully some other options (such as serial ATA) should also be mainstream.

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Reply to WingDing

Ummm, ok...I probably have to take a peek in the CPU section now and then just to keep up to date I hear.

Anyway, if it will make you happy...Sweden will probably get the card after it arrives in Ireland, so...you´re not the last one to get it.

Feeling better now? :wink:

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Reply to Jake75

Much better, thanks. I always rejoice in the misery of others. :lol:

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Reply to WingDing

Athlon XP1600+ on 1.4GHz... hoping to reach 1.9 with OC'ing.
Still waiting for HD replacements before bumping up the FSB.

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Reply to svol

Oh and I'm thinking of upgrading somewhere around March 2003, I hope the Hammer for desktops is out by then.... because another Socket A mobo wouldn't be nice because the barton seems to be the last one for that platform.

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Reply to svol

Just don't toast another CPU before March then.

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Reply to WingDing

Im running at 850 right now, but I should be getting parts for my new system today so I should be running over 2.5 in a few days when I get it built and overclocked.

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Reply to buddry

So did you feel that the 850 was slowing you down and in what?

Did you vote for greater than 2.5Ghz?

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Reply to dhlucke

It's hard to always pinpoint if your comp slowing down it's because your CPU is slow. I have a 1.4GHZ AthlonXP, I simply don't know WHEN in what is it actually bottlenecking. Unless I tried video editing or 3d S Max rendering, I am not doing much to stress it, or to know if upgrading would do anything.

Until then, a new DX9 card next year is my next major upgrade, in hope Prescott or ClawHammers are really worth it.

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Reply to eden

2.26 GHz P4B

Reply to HammerBot

Yeah, I voted for greater.
The 850 is slow in games. Can't have the res/quality as high as I would like.

I got it put together last night, but didn't have a chance to install the os yet. I will probably do it tonight.

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Reply to buddry

Plus, I was planning on turning my old box into a linux server anyways.

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Reply to buddry

(2) 1.2 GHz Athlon MP's

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Reply to Yahiko81

Would it be better to make this poll a little more generalized, say like

1-500 Mhz
501-1 Ghz
1.01-2 Ghz
2.01 Ghz or more
I know there's no such thing as a 2.01 Ghz processor, but this way it doesn't overlap in speeds

Soon enough, Intel will make the i845s...imagine dual channel Sdram...*shudder*

Reply to Quetzacoatl

*news update*
My dad will be working from home now for a little bit cause he switched jobs, and will be using my comp for a few weeks. If all goes well, in a year I may be getting a quad or more Sledgehammer workstation w/ 6 to 12 LCD's, 8 gigs of ram, and 10 scsi's. Eehehehehehhehehehehhe.

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Reply to Flamethrower205

Hmm...let's see here, well, you got 8 Sledgies at 3.0 or more Ghz, that's only about 24Ghz, what a *disappointment*...(geez)

Soon enough, Intel will make the i845s...imagine dual channel Sdram...*shudder*

Reply to Quetzacoatl

XP 1800+ (1533). I ran it at 1.67 GHz, but then messed it up a bit (still don't know what's wrong) and now it only runs stock. Ah well.

It's a bit slow in 3dmax, but runs everything else just fine. I hope to get a dual K8 system later.

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

Reply to silverpig

Holy [-peeper de peep-]... I keep repeating that your parents are rich.

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Reply to svol

*UPDATE*

Current CPU speed 1600MHz.

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Reply to svol

congratulations

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Reply to icy_oblivion

The first time I did the poll there was overlap. I'm pretty sure this one works fine.

I'm hoping just that people who are looking to upgrade can get an idea of whether or not it's worth it for what they do.

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Reply to dhlucke

Thanks... I could get it higher but I'm to lazy to open my case and turn up the voltage with a potmeter... and besides I have much work to do for school.

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Reply to svol

Quote :

potmeter

Hmm what a coincidence, potheads also have that measuring unit!

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Reply to eden

oh yeah? you couldst be runing an asus board, where 100mhz bus speed is actually 102 and 133 is 135 :smile:

personally im running at 1533, 1610 if i push it.

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Reply to lhgpoobaa

I have a XP1600 that runs just fine for my needs...

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Reply to Jake75

Potheads?

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Reply to svol

Druggies who take pot.

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Reply to icy_oblivion

Quote :

I have a XP1600 that runs just fine for my needs...

Ehrm, I´ll take that back.
Or?...

Ummm...eh?....oh.
I´m confused.

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Reply to Jake75

Why don't you OC it then?

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Reply to svol

overclocking as 1 ghz ayhja stepping thunderbird to 1.6ghz with a copper Gladiator heatsink fitted with a high speed 80mm fan. it's is for performance and 60% is a hell of a difference.

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Reply to jg38141

I just upgraded my system by changing my processor, motherboard and RAM.
I had a P4 1.60A on a 850 motherboard with 256MB of PC800.
Now I have a P4 2.40B on a 850E motherboard with 512MB of PC1066.
It wasn't worth the upgrade. My 3DMark2001SE score increased by 16%.
800MHz cpu clock increase, 133MHz FSB increase, 133MHz increase in memory speed plus another 256MB in memory got me a 16% performance increase.
I'm using a Radeon 8500 64MB retail version graphics card clocked at 275/550.
I guess the only way to increase 3D performance significantly will be to get a Radeon 9700 pro.
But the question is will it be more than a 16% performance increase? Not likely.
As far as I'm concerned it's not about clock cycles anymore. We need a new cpu core design to get a significant performance increase.

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Reply to zpyrd

The R9700 could double your scores.
Very nice upgrade BTW, but will not be as significant due to the fact your video card is the botteneck!
Try OCing it, see how it goes up in score much higher?

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Reply to eden

I fail to see how a R8500 could be called a bottleneck. That's a good card. Considering that no games really use the potential of the R9700 pro, he couldn't get any performance increase in a real world situation.

Overclocking is about it, but 16% for what he did just plain out sucks.

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Reply to dhlucke

Yes but current games no longer rely heavily on CPU, except Commanche 4. The majority need a high end card to boost their FPS. 3dMark uses the CPU but not as much as the card.

The R8500 is a bottleneck to the SYSTEM not to his games. He obviously can play smoothly but he will never attain the P4 2.4GHZ's intended multimedia threshold.

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Reply to eden

dhlucke is right when he said it sucks.
I am a fool for getting blinded by the paper propoganda published by Intel.
I could reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows and that would probably get me another 5% increase. I'm probably not getting the most out of my video card because since my last install of Windows I have upgraded the video driver at least five times. I probably have a lot of useless registry entries for the video card which is cutting performance.
But the truth is the benchmark scores would still suck for the price I paid.
I have a stable system but I do not have a performance system. I can have dozens of programs running and I never crash but part of me lusts for the maximum attainable speed without crashing.
I could probably overclock my video card to 290/580 easily without problems but then I would feel like I was cheating.
The awful truth is I feel like an idiot and the reality is I know I am an idiot.
I was suckered by the hype and now I have to live with myself.

The best advice I can give to anyone who wants to upgrade is: Ask yourself "Will it be worth it?"

I thought upgrading to a faster processor with a faster FSB and memory to match on a high quality motherboard would make a big difference. It didn't.
I think the only people who will see a noticable difference in a system upgrade are those who are upgrading from a system that operates at less than 1GHz to a system that operates closer to 3GHz.

Eventually I will complete my error and purchase a Radeon 9700 pro just because I'm an idiot who got sucked into the hype. Kick me one more time. I still didn't learn.

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Reply to zpyrd

Thanks. That's really the point of this thread. Don't kick yourself too hard though since your system still is awesome.

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Reply to dhlucke

I can give you some advices and programs to optimize your system for full performance without OC'ing, if you want.

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Reply to svol

Hmm if you ran 3dMark with tons of open programs, expect such results. If you run any bench with no programs open, you'll likely get the general idea.
BTW try some INTENSIVE CPU work, such as video editing, MP3 compression and conversion, ZIP compression, 3d rendering WITH SSE2 support. Then you'll see.

Do you have the Cataclyst drivers from ATi?

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Reply to eden

Advise away svol. What programs can I use and where do I get them?

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Reply to zpyrd

I'm using the latest drivers from ATI.
I usually wait a week after they have been released before I install the new drivers and read posts about the new drivers to see if anyone is having problems with them.
Do you know where I can get some decent benchmarking programs? For Free!!! :lol: !!!If its possible.

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Reply to zpyrd

Hmm, Sysmark 2001 being so biased for P4s, will lighten your day!

You can get SpecViewPerf or Spec2000 and test, some of them put the P4s in the light!
I heard there are 3dS Max benches but I dunno from where. ViewPerf has one though.

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Reply to eden

I recommend RegCleaner and/or JV16 Powertools for registry cleaning:
<A HREF="http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/software.shtml" target="_new">http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/software.shtml</A>

I recommend SuperCleaner for garbage cleaning:
<A HREF="http://www.southbaypc.com" target="_new">http://www.southbaypc.com</A>
(JV16 Powertools can also be used for this... didn't test it yet)

I recommend O&O Defrag fro defraging:
<A HREF="http://www.oo-software.com" target="_new">http://www.oo-software.com</A>

Also disable all unneeded services inside Win2k/XP... you can find info about it here:
<A HREF="http://www.blkviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm" target="_new">http://www.blkviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm</A>

Good luck!

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Reply to svol

Additionally, TweakXP for WinXP is an excellent tool.
For startup speedup, use BootVis from MS.
For Defragging I recommend DiskKeeper 7, with its BootTime Defrag which tremendously helped.
Cacheman is very nice for the Shut Down apps tweak, to allow fast shutdowns.
Disabling services from that list by Svol really helps as well.

I've done as much possible to speed my WinXP system, unfortunatly it's the HDD who is just slow. (Old 7200RPM 15GB Maxtor)

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Reply to eden

The WinXP forum has a thread with a site to maximum potential optimizations. I can't find it easily, but it's here, and probably in the 2nd or 3rd pages. I think the guy has some username with Persian in it.

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