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PC Mark Score is the same with two different price ranged systems!!

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Hey i am somewhat disappointed in somethign i ran into. I have built two computers. One for my brother and one formyself.
Asus p5q3 deluxe 215 dollars ( fsb 460 1840mhz)
ram- ddr3 1066 ocz ( running at 920mhz for 1to1 ratio)6-6-6-18
cpu- q6600 ( oc 3.7 fsb 460)
gpu- asus 4850
harddrive- sata seagate 80gb raid 0
ratio 1:1

Msi cheap 80 dollar mobo ( fsb 400 1600mhz)
ram- ddr2 1066 ocz ( running at 800mhz for 1to1 ratio) 4-4-4-12
cpu- q6600 ( oc 3.2 fsb 400)
gpu- asus 4850
harddrive- WD 500gb sata
ratio 1:1

my problem is my computer components are much better mostly speaking about motherboard, and ram and not to mention the fact mine is overclocked to 3.7 and my brothers is overclocked to 3.2. i ran PCMARK 05 and i got the same scores, it was 10997/ 10993 give or take each run. I dont see how these these two computers are running at the same speed. do you think something is bottlenecking my computer and stopping it from going faster. anyone know anythign about this?...bc the stats are clearly different, mine is much overclocked then my brothers but are having the same pcmark scores

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That's because the things that are different ddr3, the motherboard, RAID, don't actually affect performance.

Ddr3, with its high latency, don't actually outperform ddr2 in real situations. RAID/faster hdds in general, decreases load time, but gives exactly 0 fps increase, as the data is loaded into ram and accessed from there in game. Motherboards, unless bottlenecking oc, doesn't affect performance much.

The graphics card is the same.

You spent all the extra on exactly the things that don't matter.

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Reply to dagger

WEll now you know.

I like your brothers better then yours, except mobo. I bet your brothers with same mobo and same OC will out perform yours.

Reply to roadrunner197069

+1 for above posters. lol. You need DDR3 and very high end boards only if doing some serious work.

Btw.. this is your board right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] _-13131298 )

You should have gotten X48 + DDR2. Would have been a better choice as the P45 WILL bottle neck if you CrossFire in some games esp. @ high res.

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Reply to Shadow703793
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so ddr3 is pointless for me right now?..then what purpose do we need to upgrade to ddr3?...

Reply to ruchit
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is it possible to get ddr2 working on my asus p5q3 deluxe?

Reply to ruchit
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if worst case...should i return or sell my mobo and ram to get ddr 2 and cheaper mobo?...what mobo should i get?.i cant find any that supports crossfire at 16x...only 8x

Reply to ruchit
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X48s all have at least 2 PCIe 16x. Just skip over the ones with DDR3.

Reply to Zorg

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so ddr3 ddr3 is pointless for me right now?..then what purpose do we need to upgrade to ddr3?..



tri channel...which wont come out until nehalem, so its more or less useless for most people right now

and its too expensive, has horrible latency and can be beaten by ddr2 at half the cost


Message edited by COmmander_Keen on 09-21-2008 at 06:52:39 PM
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I like the way you expounded on the reasoning. :lol:


Message edited by Zorg on 09-21-2008 at 06:27:08 PM
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