Guba 0 Posted August 13, 2002 Hi, I recently posted a SOS message to try and solve my underperformance problem with OFPR and despite of the thankful efforts of some of you to help me I still haven't been abble to solve the problem. The thing is I need to know what benchmark score (in the preferences program) I should have for my system (AMD Athlon 2000XP+, 512Mb DDR, AsusA7M266, Geforce3) so it would be very usefull if u could only take a few minutes to post your benchmark score and a few of your systems specs so I can realise more or less what score I should try to go for. Once again, thx for your help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedRogue 0 Posted August 13, 2002 Kegtey has already told you once the preferences benchmark is a CPU processing capability score only. Nothing to do with your video card. If you want to know how well your system can handle graphical things download 3dBenchmark and see what your score is. That system should be in the 3500-4500 range. Note: A GF4Ti4600 is honestly overkill for that system, you will never get all that you can get out of that card because you system is outdated in that it uses SDRAM. Your system is bottlenecked on its memory bandwidth and system bus bandwidth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kegetys 2 Posted August 13, 2002 3D Mark is pretty much the opposite of the cpu benchmark in ofp preferences, 95% of the score is dependant on the video card, which the thing is not with 99% of the games out there, and especially OFP seems to need alot of cpu power for all the ai handling etc, but also a decent video card for the huge terrains, and also alot of memory bandwidth, and quite a bit of total memory too. Example of how useless 3D mark scores are is my computer... I have a 566 MHz Celeron 2 overclocked to 890MHz, and a (long?) while ago I had a GeForce 2 MX. With that combination I got about 1600 points in 3D mark. Now my system is all the same, but the video card is a GeForce 4 Ti4200 and I get over 6000 points. Thats almost 4x more, yet the performance difference in real games is propably half of that at best, ofp runs rather choppy sometimes because the cpu is so slow (And I dont have money to buy a better one ) but thanks to the video card I can use 1448x1088 resolution, while with the GF2MX 1024x768 was the absolute max, 800x600 was good. Edit: Oh, I get about 1400 points from the ofp preferences cpu benchmark Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedRogue 0 Posted August 13, 2002 Uh. You can afford a 200+ video card but can't afford a 1.6 Ghz athlon+ motherboard for 170? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Espectro (DayZ) 0 Posted August 13, 2002 I wouldnt touch a motherboard at that price. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpaceAlex 0 Posted August 13, 2002 Athlon XP 2200+ costs only $150 right now. Woooot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kegetys 2 Posted August 13, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RedRogue @ Aug. 13 2002,07:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Uh. Â You can afford a 200+ video card but can't afford a 1.6 Ghz athlon+ motherboard for 170?<span id='postcolor'> A decent P4 system with a good mobo would cost at least double of what the GF4 cost me... AMD systems aint ever getting in my computer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedRogue 0 Posted August 13, 2002 Awwww. To good for us AMD folks huh. Now I get it, we aren't worthy of the almighty Kegetys. Hail the almighty but underperforming Pentium.... Oh and Espectro if you don't care if your motherboard can overcloak there are some very stable and good performing motherboards for around $70 US. Some of Elite Core Groups products are fine boards, just not the ones with onboard video. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
