[QUOTE="Aneurysm"]

But this is still not enough simple for me !! yea yea SRY. Just to resume :

cod2/HL2 : e6850 a little better than q6600, but like what 2-3 fps ?

cod4 : Same as above ?

Crysis, and the new games : Q6600 ALL THE WAY ?

THX AGAIN :)

bumsoil

what this really smart guy said

Not so much. From the benchmarks that are showing up, the Crysis demo is limited by the GPU, not the CPU.

www.techspot.com/article/73-crysis-performance/page7.html

When benchmarking Crysis the demo appeared to generate very little CPU utilization. Using a Core 2 Duo E6700, the processor utilization would hover between 20-30% at times. Both cores did appear to be active though neither seemed to do a great deal, especially at the same time.

The processor utilization never really got above 45% which would indicate that the game is really only using one core. However, based on the CPU Scaling results it could also just mean that Crysis is not that processor intensive when you consider that a 1GHz drop in frequency only accounted for 2-4fps.

TechSpot

www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=698&p=8

There are a few things we would like to clarify based on what we have found with this single-player demo. Over the past few months there have been countless interviews with the people from Crytek about Crysis and 'Cervat Yerli' has made a few claims that we wanted to look into. First of all he claimed that upgrading to a quad-core processor would be essential and this had quite a few gamers madly chasing after Q6600 processors. From what we have seen based purely on this single-player game, is that quad-core processors will make little to no difference at all.

Cervat Yerli also claimed that Crysis is a very CPU bound game rather than GPU bound. This is interesting since we found the complete opposite, Crysis is very much GPU bound and any Core 2 Duo processor and probably even any Athlon64 X2 processor for that matter will handle Crysis very well. So at this stage we do not believe quad-core processors are a necessity and we also do not believe you will need to upgrade to the latest and greatest Core 2 processor.

LegionHardware

I still say the E6750 is a great bang for the buck processor and it can even handle Crysis without the need to overclock.

Well, that most likely would not be able to power it. To run that video card on a system like yours, you should have at least 350 to 400 Watt (good brand) PSU with 25 Amps on the 12V Rails. A good deal on a nice PSU that would more than cover your needs would be Antec NeoPower NeoHE 550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply for only $55 after rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817103941

[QUOTE="dayaccus007"][QUOTE="IAM-CA"]

Well, this would be $129 after $40 mail-in rebate and would be a great video card for those and newer games:

HIS Hightech H195PRQT256DDN-R-V2 Radeon X1950PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161092

Only problem is for a powerful video card, you might need to upgrade your power supply. Do you know how many watts it is or how many amps are supported on the 12V rails?

Wesker776

For that price the card is pure gold, nice find.

Shave some extra cost and increase longevity and go for either of these cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102705
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125070
or
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or
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or
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or
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or
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Huge range of options. :D

While those are cheaper, none of them can come close to matching the performance of the X1950Pro above. It also has excellent cooling!

Well, this would be $129 after $40 mail-in rebate and would be a great video card for those and newer games:

HIS Hightech H195PRQT256DDN-R-V2 Radeon X1950PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161092

Only problem is for a powerful video card, you might need to upgrade your power supply. Do you know how many watts it is or how many amps are supported on the 12V rails?

[QUOTE="GabrielVan"]What's an ideal temp for my 3800+ if I overclock? I usually run 120-130 F during load. Also, what do you mean match my 1gig to run dual channel? If I have 2 gigs of standard, I can run it in dual? And also, any general tips for OCing?pridetwo

overclock your processor straight to 2.4ghz on stock volts. thats what ive been running for 2 years and im rock stable at 40C idle. btw all computer temps are discussed in celsius usually so please try to use celsius because I can't think right when you go talking in fahrenheit for computers.

I would definitely swap out those 2 sticks of 512 for a full gig. your mobo will thank you. you can also overclock your ram then if the mood strikes you. some good timings for ram are 4-4-4-12 if the mood so strikes you.

as for your gfx. i would crank the core to 600 and the memory to 1100 on stock volts. i generally don't like overvolting but I might just go for it on my rig thats coming in from newegg soon.

remember: overclocking is the cheapest method for improving performance. time and money are saved if you know what you're doing.

Overclocking the CPU will help. Running your RAM in dual channel mode will also help... If you get another 1GB stick, you can run a 1GB and a 512MB in each channel. Good timings for PC3200 are actually more like 2-2-2-5, but just match what you have now.

I wouldn't even bother overclocking the video on that system... A 8800GTS will not in any way be a bottleneck there.

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