It occurs to me that this test and similar ones in the future would be more meaningful if TweakTown made a couple changes in its tests.
First and formost, get yourself a socket 939 rig. Are you really suprised that a P4 3.2 GHz is limiting the scores? A 3500 will outperform it for the most part in gaming (hell, the 3400 can, too), but a 3800 or FX would really allow you to get much further. Sure, it's expensive, but otherwise it's almost pointless.
The other thing is to stop using so many synthetic benchmarks, especially 3DMark 03. They mean almost nothing in the long run. Get some more gaming tests. Get older games; get some newer ones. Where are all of those Quake 3-based games (other than Q3 itself)? Where are the Battlefield games? Where's Max Payne 2? Where's America's Army? Where's Wolfenstein? Hell, where's Warcraft III? Try a wider variety of settings, too. I see FarCry at 1024x768, I see FarCry at 1600x1200, but where's FarCry with AntiAliasing? Where's FarCry with Anisotropic Filtering?
I think taking that into consideration might produce more interesting results in future tests. The only thing I really learned from that article is that getting an X800 is wasteful if you don't have something faster than a P4 3.2GHz Prescott.
First and formost, get yourself a socket 939 rig. Are you really suprised that a P4 3.2 GHz is limiting the scores? A 3500 will outperform it for the most part in gaming (hell, the 3400 can, too), but a 3800 or FX would really allow you to get much further. Sure, it's expensive, but otherwise it's almost pointless.
The other thing is to stop using so many synthetic benchmarks, especially 3DMark 03. They mean almost nothing in the long run. Get some more gaming tests. Get older games; get some newer ones. Where are all of those Quake 3-based games (other than Q3 itself)? Where are the Battlefield games? Where's Max Payne 2? Where's America's Army? Where's Wolfenstein? Hell, where's Warcraft III? Try a wider variety of settings, too. I see FarCry at 1024x768, I see FarCry at 1600x1200, but where's FarCry with AntiAliasing? Where's FarCry with Anisotropic Filtering?
I think taking that into consideration might produce more interesting results in future tests. The only thing I really learned from that article is that getting an X800 is wasteful if you don't have something faster than a P4 3.2GHz Prescott.
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