Athlon 64 3700+ handle F.E.A.R??

[rHy0]

Hey ppl, Im new to the wonderful world of pc building 😀 and im just a bit unsure of the cpu (athlon 3700+) ill be using. Im a 100% gamer and i play Fear, Bf2, Hl2 etc. and am hoping to run these games and any upcoming fps's on max detail nice and smoothely. Just wondering if the CPU combined with the below specs is good enough to handle all this without a problem? Any help appreciated and thanks in advance.


Therm. Armor case (Aluminium)
Amd Athlon 64 3700+?
Seasonic s12 600W PSU
Xfx 7800 gtx 256mb
Asus A8N sli premium
2gig RAM
WD Raptor 150gb
Win xp Pro
----------------------------------- All already ordered.

 

[luminaris]

yeah, you'll be fine with that rig man. It'll pretty much eat whatever you throw at it. Good luck with it

 

[rHy0]

Okay thanks. Do you think it will handle sli?

 

[ak47is1337]

sli is a waste of money. if you want a super powerful pc experience, go for one ultra strong card.

 

[luminaris]

Well, its a SLI board so yes, it will handle SLI. Me personally, I only use one card which works fine. I do have another one coming just to see what difference there really is.

 

[dvdpiddy]

yes any s939 proc can handle fear with a good graphics card.but dude what kind of ram you runnin if its name brand with low cas like 3.0 then yeah you should be fine but if you got the cheap stuff like rosewill,wintec.viking,etc then you might have some lag cuase of the high cas

 

[luminaris]

yesdvddoeshaveapointthereandIagree.AnyAMDprocessorwillprettymuchdowhatyouwantaslongasyoudon'tusecheapRAM.WellsaidDVD

LMAO

 

[rHy0]

I have Corsair twinx2048-3200 (2gb). Dat okay?

 

[luminaris]

That's a good choice man.

 

[rHy0]

Thats a relief. I was getting a bit worried there for sec, lol. There would be no going back!

 

[suras]

Hi all!
I hope you dont mind if I "kidnap" the thread a little.
I wonder what difference quality ram really makes?
In performance, and in feel.
Also, does high clock vs good timings "feel" different?

cheers
Suras

 

[rHy0]

Go onto corsair.com and you'll see all the different categories, eg. Xms ( low latency gaming ram).

 

[ak47is1337]

yesdvddoeshaveapointthereandIagree.AnyAMDprocessorwillprettymuchdowhatyouwantaslongasyoudon'tusecheapRAM.WellsaidDVD

LMAO

italklikethisbecauseibrokemyspacebarbeatingtheshitoutofmyT41lastnightandnowihavenochoicebuttolooklikeaworthlessnewbwithoutgrammarcapabilityomg

 

[dvdpiddy]

Hi all!
I hope you dont mind if I "kidnap" the thread a little.
I wonder what difference quality ram really makes?
In performance, and in feel.
Also, does high clock vs good timings "feel" different?

cheers
Suras

dude the cas maybe the same but the ras to cas delay maybe way higher and the discharge maybe too high that it bottle necks your other components

 

[ak47is1337]

best to have it somewhere in between extreme frequency and extreme low latency.

 

[luminaris]

Generally, the cheaper RAM has higher latency and is not as fast.

 

[ak47is1337]

BH5 @ 250 2-2-2-5 is basically the best settings you can have, it's a shame winbond didn't make more ='(

 

[suras]

Ok
Using such really good ram, is it comparable to 200mhz increase in cpu freq?
Or cant you compare those things at all?

Im trying to understand what "type" of performance increas you get by good ram.

Sorry if Im into som very basic questions, but i feel its important for to understand before i spend my cash

 

[ak47is1337]

Ok
Using such really good ram, is it comparable to 200mhz increase in cpu freq?
Or cant you compare those things at all?

Im trying to understand what "type" of performance increas you get by good ram.

Sorry if Im into som very basic questions, but i feel its important for to understand before i spend my cash

Yes, for some applications it would feel like 200 more mhz. However, CPU's love lots of memory bandwidth, especially low-latency bandwidth in the case of AMD CPU's.

 

[yourbestfriend]

My computer
3700+ AMD not overclocked yet
KN8- sli
corsair 2 gigs
ocz power stream 520
Evga and BFG 7800GT not over clocked yet
I play BF2 at 1680x1050 full settings 4x aa 4x af
sli gave me 3000 points in 3dmark05

Abit makes a great Motherboard http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/153

 

[rHy0]

Hows the 3700+ running for you? Is it good in your opinion?

 

[dvdpiddy]

can you guys use the freaken space bar please

 

[ak47is1337]

can you guys use the freaken space bar please

omg_spaces_are_for_n00bs

 

[yourbestfriend]

great really and I overclocked it to 2500 on stock cooling but, I run it at stock speeds

I switched from a P4 3.4 prescott and the performance is equal at stock speeds, but I can overclock with my new system and at 230 dollars its a steal because with better cooling I could run this at 2700mhz easy and thats alot of performance for 230 bucks IMHO.

system is very stable. I am not a expert but no problems with hardware
I had to update sound driver (I use the on board sound and it was studdered if I was doing a virus scan or something like that but the new nvida sound driver cured that.

 

[rHy0]

Ye i think my Thermaltake Armor case is ment to have excellent airflow/ventalation so when i do have a go at overclocking the 3700+ it should play a big part in keeping it stable (hopefully).