So as it seems there are quite a few of you out there who enjoy building and modding their systems. So basically post up your system details and 3DMark Vantage score with said system with screen shots and other fun stuff. I by no mean have the nastiest system out there, but for a person who is NOT a gamer I am happy with the results.
System Details:
AMD (of course) Phenom II 940 Black Edition (3 GHz)
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon 4850 X2 2GB Video Card
8GB G.Skill 1100 Memory
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm
Antec 300 Case
Antec EarthWatts 650w PS
Overclocked the CPU (still a lot of room to go):
Video card settings (maxed out, lol):
3D Mark Vantage Score:
I still have a bit more to go with the CPU overclocking but the video card is maxed out. I might pick up an other and throw it into quad crossfire but again, I am no gamer.
Zomg. It’s like tweaking a car you sizzles. Overclocking could be comparted to turning up the boost in a turbo car. With it, you have to increase the cooling (intercooler?) and up the voltage (fuel?) to accomodate for the higer clock speeds (hp?). It’s the same modding bug just nerdier.
The first screenshot shows my four processors running at 3640 MHz per core when default it runs at 3000. The second screenshot shows both of my video card processors running at their maximum speed of 700mhz (default is 625) and memory clock speed at 1200mhz (default is 933).
The last screenshot is a program that you run on your pc the receive a score based on your systems performance. The score of the program relies mainly on your video card, CPU, memory and of course the motherboard which attaches everything together.
it was a 1.8ghz pentium, but i put a 1.7 ghz & bumped the fsb, now runs at 2.2ghz steady as a rock. been this way for 6mo +. Also replaced the heat paste with some new shit to drop temps a bit.
nice pc nick, i’ll post up vantage scores when the 295 comes in
and when i build the pc etc its all in pieces,
Qx9650 core 2 extreme quad
ALOTGB DDR3 2000
790i FTW (dumped the ultra)
GTX295 evga air cooled
all other shit isnt necessary
but yea i cant wait to get it together and check scores, i wont be overclocking because i dont have the time for it but i guess if the score is not amazing i’ll do some overclocking
nice specs, although you say your no gamer… its safe to say any game out there im pretty sure your system can handle LOL…the last box i built was about half that… lol
a first gen phenom 9600 if im not mistaken 4 gb of ddr 3. with a gforce 8800gtx evga card, a mear 1gb of memory on it but still serves me well, i never benchmarked it anywhere other than pcpitstop, although the numbers wernt overly impressive on a world wide scale the machine holds its own in my book. i was looking at getting a second video card and putting the sli to use and see how much more umph the thing gives me game wise. i think next tax season ill build another machine but this time ill spend a little more on the video processing power and motherboard
dont go sli on that video card it wont be worth it, go single gpu unless your running monitors bigger than 26 inch, sli doesnt show the results until high res, otherwise its not worth the money just sounds cool
thanks, think ill scrap that idea then.
i do have a question for you though… seeing as your probly a bit more techie than me… i have an s-video out on that card and i did try running it to a 47inch lcd hdtv that has an s-video input… looked like shit… and wouldnt display any of the graphics in quake 4 or anything els for that matter… is there a specific tv i need to look for or is it the video card itself that wont display the graphics on such a large screen. the point is to set up my living room so i dont need another room for all my computer equipment and i can do it all there on one screen.
what u mean , like it wouldnt start the game or u went in game and couldnt see anything? or its just the graphics were crappy?
for tv’s u gotta really have a 1080i hdtv because those 720 shits and whatever else arent good enough IMO, because they wont run a resolution high enough to be acceptable
