Did I waste my time upgrading?

[Jamie_Manic]

I just upgraded from an Athlon XP 2400+, 1 Gig PC2100 RAM, Elite Systems
K7S5A to an Athlon 64 3000+, 1 Gig PC3200 RAM, Asus KV8 Deluxe and am
struggling to detect much of a performance increase in my system at all.

Armed and Dangerous seems a bit quicker but everything else is no
different...X2 benchmarks are the same, Deus Ex 2 is still jerky as ever.
Even my 3D Mark scores are about the same. My video card is a Radeon 9700
too so I doubt that is a bottleneck.

 

[Centurion]

I just upgraded from an Athlon XP 2400+, 1 Gig PC2100 RAM, Elite Systems
K7S5A to an Athlon 64 3000+, 1 Gig PC3200 RAM, Asus KV8 Deluxe and am
struggling to detect much of a performance increase in my system at all.

Armed and Dangerous seems a bit quicker but everything else is no
different...X2 benchmarks are the same, Deus Ex 2 is still jerky as ever.
Even my 3D Mark scores are about the same. My video card is a Radeon 9700
too so I doubt that is a bottleneck.

Get a "real" OS that can leverage 64bit CPU's and you'll see some
improvement. Hint: "Windows" is not a real OS.

James

 

[BoB]

Tweak some more and use better benchs!

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1946&p=5

 

[Kirby Crosby]

the new setup should blow away the old one...
something is amiss.
make sure you have th emobo drivers loaded.
run dxdiag to be sure that you are getting full agp acceleration.

 

[Tim]

Duh! OS/X doesn't run on intel/amd!
- Tim

Get a "real" OS that can leverage 64bit CPU's and you'll see some
improvement. Hint: "Windows" is not a real OS.

James

 

[David]

You're not going to like the answer...but yes you kinda did waste time and
money.

You're not running a 64 bit operating system nor are you running any 64 bit
applications. In the near future (2 years) there will practically no games
that require 64 bit cpus as nobody has them. So for now running 32 bit
applications you won't see a huge speed increase (It is rated at 3000+ after
all).

All the applications you are running are video card based, the video card IS
the bottleneck. On most hardware review sites when they review CPU's they
run games at very low resolutions because only at these resolutions can the
cpu gain been seen, at the higher ones the CPU's all do the same because the
card is holding them back. (Ie when you see a tomshardware.com review of a
cpu they usually run games at 640x480 ). You should see a performance gain
in CPU intensive benchmarks such as PC Mark.

I've heard many complaints about Deus Ex 2 running poorly, I suspect thats a
problem with the game (Possibly specific to ATI cards as I've only heard
complaints from them).

 

[David]

And it's not fully 64 bit

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31600.html

 

[Andrew]

I've heard many complaints about Deus Ex 2 running poorly, I suspect thats a
problem with the game (Possibly specific to ATI cards as I've only heard
complaints from them).

By far the most complaints I have seen is on NVidia cards.

 

[The Black Wibble]

I just upgraded from an Athlon XP 2400+, 1 Gig PC2100 RAM, Elite Systems
K7S5A to an Athlon 64 3000+, 1 Gig PC3200 RAM, Asus KV8 Deluxe and am
struggling to detect much of a performance increase in my system at all.

Oh oh oh! Try compiling a linux kernel. zooomm...

Are you running the Windows XP 64-Bit Ediition?

Armed and Dangerous seems a bit quicker but everything else is no
different...X2 benchmarks are the same, Deus Ex 2 is still jerky as ever.
Even my 3D Mark scores are about the same. My video card is a Radeon 9700
too so I doubt that is a bottleneck.

Upping the Deus Ex 2 swapfile size from 1MB to 16MB or even 128MB supposedly makes a big difference in
performance, and applying this patch ( http://files.filefront.com/1567100 ) will stop the mouse lag.

You have an extremely drool worthy machine, but don't expect a big improvement in gaming because of it. The
lion's share of graphics processing is done by the GPU not the CPU.

Tony.

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