Re: 3DMark05 Scores
It may help alittle, but as I said, 3D Mark 05 is very much video card dependant. Don't put alot of faith in benchmarks. They are not totally realistic on real worl performance anyways. You will have quite an impressive system once it is together. Your current rig was not bad at all considering it's performance. Use 3D Mark 03 if you want a better feel of overall performance gains. It is more of a 50/50 mix of CPU and video card testing. 3D Mark 01 SE is heavily dependant on the CPU so that is good for testing that aspect. 3D Mark 06 is a joke and is not reliable at all.
The biggest thing I can emphasize is that once you have your new system built, the last piece you "need" is a 2GB ram kit and you are ready for anything. And remember this, the best part about AMD64 CPU's is that you can use a divider on the memory if overclocking and not suffer any performance loss unlike Intel stuff. Once you are ready, I bet that 3700+ will easily do 2.5-2.6GHz on the stock cooler. Enjoy it.
It may help alittle, but as I said, 3D Mark 05 is very much video card dependant. Don't put alot of faith in benchmarks. They are not totally realistic on real worl performance anyways. You will have quite an impressive system once it is together. Your current rig was not bad at all considering it's performance. Use 3D Mark 03 if you want a better feel of overall performance gains. It is more of a 50/50 mix of CPU and video card testing. 3D Mark 01 SE is heavily dependant on the CPU so that is good for testing that aspect. 3D Mark 06 is a joke and is not reliable at all.
The biggest thing I can emphasize is that once you have your new system built, the last piece you "need" is a 2GB ram kit and you are ready for anything. And remember this, the best part about AMD64 CPU's is that you can use a divider on the memory if overclocking and not suffer any performance loss unlike Intel stuff. Once you are ready, I bet that 3700+ will easily do 2.5-2.6GHz on the stock cooler. Enjoy it.
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