New Gaming Computer Help

Discussion in 'Tech Talk' started by Seth_Almighty, Jul 7, 2008.

  1. Seth_Almighty
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    Yep, that is exactly right. I opened up the computer to find everthing in there. Only thing I didn't see was the crossfire chip, but there is a large blindspot and I assume it's there. Well, I don't really know how well it runs actually. It definitely isn't bad as it runs Halo 2 (it came with it) smooth at max settings, but Halo 2 is sort of old. Most of my current games aren't that intensive, so if anyone knows of anyway to numerically portray how well it runs then I could tell you guys.

    Side note: this computer is a mammoth. The case could house a family of midgets.
     
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    you can go ahead and download 3dmark. i believe you get a one time shot with it. Once you do that, just post up the scores for us. You should have a score of at least 15000.
     
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    Well, it didn't end up doing that well. Although, I haven't overclocked anything, so I don't know how much of a difference that would make, but my results were CPU score of 6201 and a Graphics score of 7855.

    22.36 fps for first, 23.69 for second, 829 operations, 8.96 physics operations (ouch, this is pretty low). Those results aren't that spectacular, but as long as it runs the games then I am fine.

    Side note: what difference would it make if the crossfire chip wasn't installed?
     
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    ALot. Considering the specs, you should be alot higher.
     
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    Now that I think about it, wouldn't the crossfire chip only change things if I had multiple graphics cards? Or maybe you were responding about overclocking. There is something on my computer that may be close to overclocking, but I am not sure. It is called Six Engine and it allows you to determine if you want performance/reliability/less energy consumption/ect. I could have put all options to performance over quality, but I doubt that would have made much of a difference.

    Anyways, have any suggestions on what I should do?
     
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    There are plenty of 3D Mark tests all over the net. If you don't have xfire then it probably falls in line with all of them.