Ok. So far this is what is been built and stable.
nf7-s
2500xp barton
512mushkin lvl2 3500
9800pro
80gb sata seagate hd

System runs stable and cool.
Well.. on benchmarks it's a champ. Way better than any pentium system i've used. So be it the highest i've used is a 2.6c so don't get all flamey at me.

I haven't really played too many games with it yet, but i have played CS,war3 and UT2003 without any hitches at all.
So.. I loaded up SWG and started to play it.. set all the graphics up as high as possible and went at it.
Unfortunately my computer doesn't seem like it can handle it and this pisses me right off. I'm not certain but pretty sure that my 2.8b with rdram was a bit better than this.
Now, the thing is.. my Pentium system flogged like hell in benchmarks. But.. didn't seem to be doing bad at all in games.
This computer seems to be exact opposite.

So here's my settings if anyone would like to help.
2-2-2-6 memory.
Virtual memory. 512-1500
I even set the resolution to 800x600 on windows while playing the game.
So.. if anyone could maybe give me a tip to help out that would be great. Becuase at this rate i might have to give into the intelism and give up on AMD which numerically has proven awesome, but doesn't seem to show in actual performance.

I'm really thinking somewhere there is something making this not work right.. maybe driver or something on that side.. i can't see hardware being at fault.

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Figured i'd do it too..reality my ass.

SWG isn't the best way to find out your system's performance man, since the game is extremely scalable. Whats more, when using a more powerful system, various bar settings within that game will actually automatically change. So the highest setting on a low-end system will *not* be the same as the highest setting a higher-end system.

Besides, why compare that with a P4-2.8b? Of course it's going to beat the 2500XP.

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What is SWG?

Star Wars Galaxies.

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But.. the thing is. In all of my 3d benchmarks it doesn't beat the 2500xp@3200xp, also this owns in ut2003 compared to it.
So, that's really all i have to go off of it. And it's at 2.2ghz overclocked.
But anything helpful would be nice. I think I might have to actually ditch this for my 2.8b. It was fun while it lasted , but it's gonna be thrown into the lanbox mixup.

Getting to the point where i think benchmarks are just designed for AMD to look better.

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Figured i'd do it too..reality my ass.

have you done some serious stress testing on the overclocking?

it's possible that galaxies is getting some computational errors or something because of it.....

maybe try it without overclocking and compare?

besides that, remember that AMD and Intel CPUs ARE better at certain things.. it could be that galaxies just heavily makes use of something that Intel thrives at.

That's the only thing i can think of, but i have thought of underclocking it to try it out.

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Figured i'd do it too..reality my ass.