How will this system perform?

Hi im about to finish building my system now just waiting for the gfx card to arive..

pls can you tell me how this will perform? Btw im waiting till i can afford it to buy an AMD athlon 4800+ dual core.

ATM it is..

MOBO-ASUS A8N-SLI
CPU-AMD Athlon 64bit 3200+ (2.4ghz)
RAM-2GB PC3200 (DDR 400)
GPU-XFX Nvidia 9800GT 512mb
PSU-480w
HDD-1x 160gb SATA HDD, 1x 300gb IDE HDD

Will this system run games at a decent quality and framerate? im obviously not trying to build a crysis buster, but im after playing some of the latest games.. And when i get the dual core hopefully playing them on pretty high settings.. Thanks for advice

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Might do okay if your resolution isn't too high. A little extra RAM might help too.

Reply to wathman

Uh... I'm relatively certain that graphics card is gonna be bottlenecked. The RAM is not good, your PSU is probably flakey since you didn't list the brand name... Why go with such old components? How much was your budget?

Reply to brockh

I agree with the above, but figured there wasn't much budget to work with since the system is on the old side.

Reply to wathman

WHat would ya suggest i do with the system ive literally got no budjet its just parts ive had lying around its got an ati x800gt 256mb in it atm and it plays cod4 pretty good and hl2 maxed out at 100fps, im just wanting to play games like fallout 3 and fifa10 and cod4 on med-high, is it the mobo thats out dated and what ram wud you stick in it? Also whats bottleneck? Thanks

Reply to terley

Its gonna run like ***, dont expect much.

SLOW CPU
Slow Ram, not enough ram
OK GPU
crappy PSU
old slow hard drives

JUNK, JUNK, JUNK, JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to daship

Shut your face you prick

Reply to terley

I can respond to your question as to how it will perform once you get the X2-4800+ although I don't understand how you are actually getting one.

Here's my system:
AMD X2-4800+ (S939)
Asus A8N-SLI Premium NForce 4
4GB DDR3200
ATI HD3870 512MB

Now, I'm going to describe a few games:
1) Half-Life 2 (High Quality @ 60FPS. Nice.)
2) Batman Arkham Asylum (very good)
3) Dead Space (very good)
4) Fallout 3 (not highest, but still very good)
5) Devil may Cry 4 (highest settings)
6) Mass Effect (not bad, but it's maxing out my CPU. A bit of stutter)
7) Lego Batman (high settings @ 60FPS)
8) Street Fighter IV (very good)
9) Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (an older game, but I have everything cranked up and it looks great.)
10) FarCry 1 (very good)

Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 will perform quite nicely on this computer.

Games that you should NOT bother with:
1) Crysis
2) Far Cry 2
etc.

Just because it's not the latest computer does NOT mean it's junk. I wouldn't buy it if you were paying too much but there are LOTS of games that you can play on this system.

*Your 2GB is fine during games but until you get the X2-4800+ you will not be able to play most of these games at acceptable quality. Even so, there are other games you can find that play nicely.

The X2-4800+ and 9800GT are well suited to each other. By that I mean some games will be limited by the graphics card and some will be limited by the CPU which is what you aim for when building a system.

I recommend you check out the website Gamespot, then go into the PC section and list the games by SCORE from highest to lowest. Then get a whole bunch of DEMOS for games that have high scores and look interesting to you.

Until you get a feel for it, you can run the program FRAPS and show the frame rate. Set your quality levels so your high-speed shooting games (like Half-Life 2) are averaging 40+ FPS. You can get away with 25FPS for slower paced games like Neverwinter Nights (speaking of which that is an older game but until you get the 4800+ CPU it'll run nicely on your system.)

Direct2Drive has a sale on right now.
There's a couple good games for $5. If unsure, go back to Gamespot for scores but you should download a couple. You might not be able to play them until you get your better CPU but for $5 that's fine.

I recommend:
- Bioshock
- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
- Far Cry

Reply to photonboy

Overclocking:
I dropped my RAM down to 333MHz then overclocked the CPU by 20% so the RAM is now back up to 400MHz and my CPU is 2.88GHz.

If you overclock, drop to 333MHz for the RAM and start with a 10% overclock.

You can also try to get 10% on the graphics card. Take your time and make sure things are stable.

(I also have a large Sonic Tower heatsink and 120mm fan for the CPU otherwise I wouldn't overclock it with a stock heatsink.)

Reply to photonboy

Thanks for the advice photonboy really helpfull, jst wondering tho, how will games like cod and wow play? My x800gt plays farcry on maxed out with 1gig of ram, kinda feels like overkill for the xfx9800gt.

Reply to terley

The 9800GT will not be running to full potential. Though it will be running better than your old card, do not expect miracles. This is troublesome because you could have spent much less on another card (maybe the HD 4670 or lower, which would've saved you upwards of $30-40) and it wouldn't have ran any slower. This could've been invested in a better CPU and/or more memory.

The 9800GT, by itself, is far and above faster than your CPU which means your graphics card is "bottlenecked" -- the terminology meaning your processor will hold back your graphics card from using 100% of its power. This happens because every device on your computer has to interact with the CPU, and if the processing power of the device is greater, it cannot interact more often than the CPU is capable to interact with it. (Think someone that is better at math problems relying on someone bad at math, etc.)

As such, you cannot look at traditional benchmark graphs because they are almost always done with a CPU that allows the card to run 100%.

Regardless, you should be fine as long as you're running at low resolutions such as 1024x768 or 1280x1024 (or even 800x600), and you should see at least a noticible performance increase.

If or when you want to upgrade your processor a good value choice is this processor. It's cheap and will be leaps and bounds above your current setup, and you'll also see performance increases above and beyond its capabilities because it will allow your 9800GT to breathe. With that purchase, I would recommend getting some value 667MHz DDR2 RAM, which is also very cheap. Unfortunately you'll also have to purchase a new motherboard, but just keep that in mind when you're ready to upgrade in the future. Don't hold yourself back by spending more and more money on old parts; just save up.

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Message edited by brockh on 10-03-2009 at 09:25:02 AM

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brockh wrote :

The 9800GT will not be running to full potential. Though it will be running better than your old card, do not expect miracles. This is troublesome because you could have spent much less on another card (maybe the HD 4670 or lower, which would've saved you upwards of $30-40) and it wouldn't have ran any slower. This could've been invested in a better CPU and/or more memory.

The 9800GT, by itself, is far and above faster than your CPU which means your graphics card is "bottlenecked" -- the terminology meaning your processor will hold back your graphics card from using 100% of its power. This happens because every device on your computer has to interact with the CPU, and if the processing power of the device is greater, it cannot interact more often than the CPU is capable to interact with it. (Think someone that is better at math problems relying on someone bad at math, etc.)

As such, you cannot look at traditional benchmark graphs because they are almost always done with a CPU that allows the card to run 100%.

Regardless, you should be fine as long as you're running at low resolutions such as 1024x768 or 1280x1024 (or even 800x600), and you should see at least a noticible performance increase.

If or when you want to upgrade your processor a good value choice is this processor. It's cheap and will be leaps and bounds above your current setup, and you'll also see performance increases above and beyond its capabilities because it will allow your 9800GT to breathe. With that purchase, I would recommend getting some value 667MHz DDR2 RAM, which is also very cheap. Unfortunately you'll also have to purchase a new motherboard, but just keep that in mind when you're ready to upgrade in the future. Don't hold yourself back by spending more and more money on old parts; just save up.

thank you very much for your advice i will most likley be saving for a new mobo now =)

Reply to terley

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