threw a bunch of old parts toghter this weekend.. for Fun and got 60 fps in crysis with old 9800gt

[darkone999]

just a little fun and experiences

Just spent a few hours this weekend throwing a bunch of old PC parts together. Nothing better to do I had no plans and it is cold and expecting snow this weekend..Going to sell all these parts on Ebay to fund more parts for a build I am in the middle of for my daughter. so I was having fun and testing everything.. A little stress testing too...

System parts
-Gigabyte Am2 plus/Am3 MB GA-MA74GM-S2
- Mix of ddr 667 and 800 memory for 4gig total
- Amd athlon 2 x4 620. OC,d from stock 2.6 up to 3.1ghz
-Evga 9800gt 512mb ram. (Akima version without back cooling plate on back of PCB).OC.d from stock 600mhz up to 750mhz. Never went past 52C. Cooling for this card was made top of the line.
-650 watt PSU
-Vista 32bit SP2
-no case used. custom testing board used

Software
Prima 95
fluidmark
furmark
msi afterburner 4.1
HW
Gpu and cpuZ
fraps
Crysis 1,2 and warhead

settings for crysis 720p 1280x720 on gamer settings for graphics.DX9

Results with crysis 1 and warhead average 42 FPS seen it go up to 60 FPS in warhead and crysis 1 a lot. crysis 2 average 23 FPS. This videocard showed its age with fluidmark/furmark as it only averaged 8 FPS in 720p with fluidmark and with same settings 14 FPS with furmark "yikes thats slow". I will say I was a little taken on how well this system played crysis 1 and warhead. The cpu never went past 65% usage overall or over 50C on everything I threw at it. I did find that crysis one and warhead on vista spread the usage of the cpu across the 4 cores at a even rate a lot better than win XP ever did. I surfed the web played movies and music. ran a few emulators played with the bios along with overclocking everything I could along the way. all in all it was fun and this junkyard of parts worked great under all the stress I put on it and well ran pretty damn good for what it was. Off to Ebay all the parts go so I can get my daughter a 750Ti 2gig videocard for her build.

Oh and its snowing now so I am off to play rome total war...

Tim

 

[clutchc]

Some of those old Athlons IIs and Phenom IIs are still decent gamers, in single player games anyway. Crysis used to be a PC killer when it first came out. Of course then the Athlon IIs and Phenom IIs were still the AMD high end CPUs. The real surprise is the 9800GT. I didn't think that had the guts even at 720p. However, a lot will depend on the in-game settings you used.

 

[darkone999]

Some of those old Athlons IIs and Phenom IIs are still decent gamers, in single player games anyway. Crysis used to be a PC killer when it first came out. Of course then the Athlon IIs and Phenom IIs were still the AMD high end CPUs. The real surprise is the 9800GT. I didn't think that had the guts even at 720p. However, a lot will depend on the in-game settings you used.

Here is the cards specs just for fun

EVGA 512-P3-N982-B2 GeForce 9800 GT Akimbo Video Card ( I think it was a BFG card and was rebranded to EVGA) I found a BFG MN and PN stickers when I removed the back plate but the housing is EVGA as is the exposed stickers. It was new sealed in box when I bought it. Very strange

NVIDIA e-GeForce 9800GT Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
112 processor cores
600 MHz core clock
1500 MHz shader clock
512 MB GDDR3 memory

This card came with a metal cooling plate 3 inches by 5 inches that was attached on the exposed side of the PCB on the back covering the Soldering part of the board covering the GPU/memory for extra cooling.Never seen anything like it then or now. They made many Akimbo models and I lucked into getting one with the back cooling plate (very rare) a few years ago for "our u ready" new ten bucks in the box. The card is not worth much now but it is cool. I did remove the cooling plate for my own reasons but saved it. I have had this card OC.d to 820Mhz before and never went past 53C. Anyways I use this card for testing pci slots and have never used it in my own builds. It is fun to play with and yes for a 9800GT it runs a lot better than expected when OC'd. If it was one gig memory I would keep it.

Tim