new monster

Got my AMD 3800 with 1 gig mem and a K8T Neo2 MSI mobo yesterday and slapped her together. Unbelievable, absolutly unbelievable. What a machine, fast fast fast

 

Glad to hear you got it up and running. Always a rush pushing that power switch for the first time on a new machine !!!!!

 

Ahhh, the power switch rush: Its great if you hear 1 beep , but god forbid any more than 1 ....by the way, props to you mgrist on ya system- rock on with ya bad self!

 

How did yo know I was bad??? And what kind of bad are you referring to, a good bad or would that be a bad bad. Or could it be bad bad in a good way depending on circunstances that is???

 

How can a negative thought enter your head,considering your new system!
bad bad,bad good,good good,good bad.Who cares!
Open the side of your case and have another look.LOL

 

It has one of those glass sides with two fans in it and pretty lights so it's easy to see into it, and it makes a perfect nightlight, it's so pretty

 

I upgraded from a 1900xp to an a64 3500,1 gig corsair,6800gt.
2 months on I still pinch myself!LOL

 

This is my eighth computer.... or is it nine?? But anyway it is by far the fastest. This little old 2.4 AMD kicks the crap out of my 3.2 P-4 and all the others also. And I know what you mean about pinching yourself, I think I'd sleep with mine if the cord was long enough
All the other computers have old parts or no cases I have to share CD Roms etc... This one is complete and everything in it is new

 

My previous PC started life as a full system bought from pc world,Over six years that little beige box sat there having its guts wrenched out every year having holes cut in it,bits bent this is my first complete system in 6 years everything brand new wonder how long this one will be stood here.

 

just don't rip it up until it's gone

@mgrist: isn't it nice to have a brand spankin' new computer? mmm. now my p4 3.5ghz just doesn't quite feel adequate anymore and i told myself that i would keep this for a couple more years too oh well

 

Its absolutly amazing how fast this thing is. When I got my 3.2 I said wow but it seems like my old Athlon 2400 now. In the benchmarks I looked at the 3800 actually beat out the FX 51 in a few catogories and it beat all the intels in all the trials except one irrelevent one. I'm still agast. I'm going to get half life loaded on it tomorrow and see how it does compared to the 3.2 I don't know of any other way to test for differences between the two, do you?

 

well, i mainly like to do real world benchmarks. it's one thing to see how well it does in heavy loads that will be attained <1% of the time you're at the computer. it's another thing to test how well it will do in rigorous day-day use situations. i typically open up as many programs as i can possibly handle and see how well the computer handles it. although it's entirely subjective in that sense, that's exactly how i can tell if the computer is up to my standards of strength vs speed.

but of course, everyone's different. if you got that computer just for gaming, i'd load up 3dmark along with every game you would ever play on the computer and start benchmarking. or if you got it just to use pro/e, then get pro/e installed and time certain operations. you get the idea.

 

I notice that my system always beats the benchmarks they have at tomshardware .. i dunno why .. and even thought they always use a faster CPU

 

Probably because Toms hardware gets the first revisions of all the products with the first revision of drivers,by the time I get a product Toms hardware tested it months earlier Im not sure if release dates are the same in the US being from the UK,but companies seem to get thier boards to the reviewers as soon as possible and its not like they can do another review a few months later because the new stuff has come for review.

One more thing to remember is Tomshardware uses its own secret benchmarks "custom time demos"so companies cant optimize thier products to run them like 3d mark"nvidia"which scores can be increased with later driver revisions because they know exactly on which part of the test they are lacking.