Author Topic: new athlon 64! (Read 5103 times)

jharsh · « **on:** February 26, 2004, 11:06:53 PM »

Well I got my athlon 64 3000+ in today. I ran a set of benchmarks on my old system before the upgrade to see just how much faster my new system is.

Old system
AMD Athlon XP 2600 333mhz fsb
abit nf7-s 1.1
256mb X2 corsair ddr400 (running at ddr333).
ati radeon 9800XT

New system
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
CHAINTECH ZNF3-150 ZENITH
256mb X2 corsair ddr400 .
ati radeon 9800XT

The old system hit 6066 in 3dmark03

my new system hit 6438 in 3dmark03

now to tweak :evil

[Edited on 3-4-2004 by jharsh]

ZWarrior · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2004, 09:45:39 AM »

Cool! I can't wait to see how it works for gaming.

JollyRoger · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2004, 05:14:31 PM »

Them are some nice numbers.

Now all you need to do is change your sig to your new configuration:lol

[Edited on 2-27-2004 by [303]JollyRoger]

jharsh · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:40:52 PM »

I would but I can't get a stable system. I'm trying a few tricks to see if I can't get it working but for now it's no good for games :cry:

If I can't fix it I'll be playing on my old system.

JollyRoger · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2004, 10:51:52 PM »

What's it doing?

jharsh · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2004, 12:14:46 AM »

Several things.

1# When 2 or more programs are open sometime they lock for a few moments

2# Random reboots (no real error given. Just says something violated windows integrity so windows was rebooted to prevent data lose

good one)

Plus the system just felt a little slow at times.

All that said I may have worked out a few of the bugs. I have been working with the system now for 3 hours with no problems. I updated all the drivers and I boosted the ram voltage by .1 volt. That seems to have fixed things for now. We will see though as I have the next 2 days off. I'm holding final judgment till I get bf1942 installed.

BTW
I ran windows memory testing program (oddly a dos program, not windows at all) and it found no problems with my ram before or after the voltage increase. Oddly though boosting the ram voltage seems to have been the thing that fixed it.

nothing like the bleeding edge of technology.

jharsh · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2004, 05:30:51 PM »

Well another problem with the athlon 64 system.

Battlefield 1942 is unplayable. The game seems to be in hyper mode. Everything is running faster than it should be. The sound is the first thing that is noticed. Sounds a bit like playing 33rpm record at 45 rpm (for those who remember records).:8o:

Also the mapvote screen pops up and can't be removed. Any ideas?

jharsh · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2004, 06:29:29 PM »

fixed everything but the sound problem. All I had to do was reinstall the patch. I'll have to pick up a cheap soundblaster and see if that fixes things.

the joys of a new system :rolleyes:

Wolverine of Ambush! · « **Reply #8 on:** February 29, 2004, 08:48:28 AM »

ain't that the truth...

jharsh · « **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2004, 02:32:25 AM »

here is the wcpuid html file from my athlon 64 3000. Not something you normally find on review sites.

Wcpuid output

ZWarrior · « **Reply #10 on:** March 03, 2004, 10:20:18 AM »

Could some of it be that you are using the 32bit XP?

jharsh · « **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2004, 10:43:49 PM »

Ok I'v hit the max overclock I can and remain stable. I got the cpu up to 2.2GHz. After running 3dmark03 I got a score of 6537. Next to overclock the videocard.

ZWarrior · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2004, 01:19:33 PM »

And how did this work out?

biggonterman · « **Reply #13 on:** September 20, 2004, 11:20:36 AM »

i was at the lan party last friday and saturday, had a bit of trouble with my a64 3.0, but got it goin in about 25 minutes with a fresh install of xp sp2 and drivers.

i hit 10600 on 3dmark03, or somewhere around that, but i have a geforce6800gt...

anyone remember boogieman, yeah thats me. and the benchmarks were posted on the //webserver

ZWarrior · « **Reply #14 on:** September 21, 2004, 09:10:38 AM »

Good to have met you as well!

Sorry you left before the IRON MAN.

Hope to see you at the next one.

I need to seriously look at a 64-bit system.

Boomslang · « **Reply #15 on:** September 21, 2004, 01:39:57 PM »

I got a 10900 with my P42.6 @ 2.8
BFG 6800 gt was not o/c over factory settings
this was not a freash os but the m/b and H/D were. MSI 865 chip set. This is the third msi m/b. I've had two go bad and think the other one took out my 120 gig H/D. Hmmm I wounder why their getting sewed.

bfg @ 411/ 1.1 3dmark 11739

can't wait to see what my new P3.4 will do

[Edited on 9-21-2004 by Boomslang]

Boomslang · « **Reply #16 on:** October 15, 2004, 06:07:53 PM »

Looks like the little guy is a winner

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19110

Boomslang · « **Reply #17 on:** December 22, 2004, 06:55:47 AM »

Stress test at tom,s I think you know what my next upgrade will be. The results are in.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041217/index.html

ZWarrior · « **Reply #18 on:** December 22, 2004, 10:29:55 AM »

Ummm, AMD?

JollyRoger · « **Reply #19 on:** December 22, 2004, 01:44:04 PM »

Thats my next CPU,
I just am not sure which it will be!

ZWarrior · « **Reply #20 on:** December 22, 2004, 03:54:08 PM »

Prices are getting much more reasonable. I am thinking of making a major leap in the next upgrade. We'll see what the budget is like.

Boomslang · « **Reply #21 on:** December 25, 2004, 06:07:14 AM »

Tuesday, Dec 21, 2004: The day started with no issues. Both systems were running perfectly and did not report and errors. However, it did not last very long. At 11:31 am, the Intel system failed again and turned itself off.

After comprehensive analysis of all components we identified the source of the problem. The Tagan-built power supply TG480-U22 delivered a standby voltage of 5V, however could not be turned on again. Our test engineers suspected the Tagan device to be the problem already the day before, since the system demonstrated similar behavior then. Our power supply test station finally cleared any doubts and confirmed this device to be the problem's origin. The failed component from Tagan will stay in THG's test lab in Munich until the end of the test and can be reviewed by the manufacturer.

Tagan's weaknesses are not new to us. A total of five power supplies suddenly failed in our labs during the past year. A newly designed and rubberized casing is unlikely to improve the reliability of the devices.

We substituted the TG480-U22 with an Antec NEO480. The system has been running again since 12:12 pm EST.

Tom has updated the report does't look as bad for Intel .

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041217/index.html

[Edited on 12-25-2004 by Boomslang]

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