Please help me answer a simple question

[Just_Tota]

AMD Althlon XP 2400+, 512 mb DDRAM 400 mhz, motherboard SOYO KT600 Plus, and an ATI 9600 Pro 128 mb (Gigabyte model R96P128DH).
Can this handle Half Life 2 or Doom 3 at acceptable framrates?

 

[cleeve]

Sure.

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<b>Radeon <font color=red>9500 PRO</b></font color=red> <i>(hardmodded 9500, o/c 340/310)</i>
<b>AthlonXP <font color=red>~2750+</b></font color=red> <i>(2400+ @2.2Ghz)</i>
<b>3dMark03: <font color=red>4,055</b>

 

[dhlucke]

We can all make educated guesses about games that haven't been released. Sure...

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Nov. 6, 1971: "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals"

- John Kerry, a Presidential Candidate

 

[Just_Tota]

Thanks man. Two more things, I always read benchmarks but I never got to know what can an accepable number in frames per second: 30, 40, 60 ?
The other thing is ... damned, I can´t remeber...
Ok thanks for your time anyway

 

[Titanion]

Note that the "plus" is not a very good overclocking motherboard... there are no VCore adjustments... and there is no pci/agp lock except at 133, 166, and 200 bus speeds... and with no VCore change, this does not help you much... if your 2400+ is locked, so are you... if it is unlocked, you can do a wire mod to increase your VCore and likely run that 2400+ at 11x200 with ease... Without the VCore wire mod, you might be able to get 200x10.5 at stock VCore... I have my father-in-law's computer with that motherboard and an unlocked 2400+ running at 166x12.5 with stock cpu voltage because he has pc2700 ram...

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/Mobile Barton 2600+
210x12.5 1.808v SLK900A
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
Sapphire 9500np@9700np</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/Barton 2500+
200x11.5 1.76v
512MB XMS PC2700
XFX Ti4200

 

[Just_Tota]

Oh, I remembered! Which system is better for games playing, the Windows 98 ver2 (i thinks thats what they told me) or the Windows XP? Or another?

 

[Just_Tota]

Thanks, but I´m not intersted in overclocking. I don´t want to play around with things I don´t know how to handle and mess up...
By the way, which mother would be the best to go for, the SOYO KT600 Dragon Plus or GIGABYTE 7N400E(don´t care about overclocking)?
Thanks anyway...

 

[dhlucke]

WinXP is a better overall OS. My experience showed more FPS in XP but others might disagree. Nonetheless the difference one way or the other is negligable. However the overall stability is worth using XP.

<font color=red>_______________________________________
Nov. 6, 1971: "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals"

- John Kerry, a Presidential Candidate

 

[cleeve]

1) Windows XP is the best

2) If your framerates are above 30 and it doesn't dip below 20, it's probably playable, but that's on the low, low end of the spectrum.

With your rig, you'll probably be able to get framerates above that in those games, but you'll likely have to play with the quality settings to get there.
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<b>Radeon <font color=red>9500 PRO</b></font color=red> <i>(hardmodded 9500, o/c 340/310)</i>
<b>AthlonXP <font color=red>~2750+</b></font color=red> <i>(2400+ @2.2Ghz)</i>
<b>3dMark03: <font color=red>4,055</b>

 

[marneus]

for older games 98se but these days games are designed with XP in mind...

Trust me I know what I'm doing... ooops, grab the cat...