Athlon equivalent

[shaun forsdyke]

Afternoon,

I have an

AMD Athlon 64 processor
3500+
2.20ghz 1.00gb ram

If you were to relate this to a Pentium, what would it be?

Regards
Shaun

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Ive been told before that pentiums need to be about 1 Ghz faster to match the athlons

P.S. this should be in the hardware/software section.

 

[shaun forsdyke]

Sorry, I didnt see that category, please feel free to move the topic.

Im not too knowledgable on these subjects so what would the complete specs be Da Muffin Man?

 

[bryanf445]

it would be like a 3.5 ghz pentium if im correct

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Oh, what bryan just said reminded me of something. 3500=3.5ghz P4, 2800=2.8ghz P4, etc.

 

[duffers20]

it would be like a 3.5 ghz pentium if im correct

Yeh I agree with that, round about 3.5 to 3.6ghz. Is there any reason for this question or are you just curious

 

[shaun forsdyke]

Im trying to work out why I cant run on FEAR on max settings. I apparently have a
·Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor



·1 GB RAM
Got that.

·A 256 MB Radeon® 9800 Pro or equivalent
Got X800XT

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Bumpmapping(or mipmapping) is a bitch on all cards. is there an option for that in FEAR? I havent played the demo yet.....i dont even think i can. radeon 9000 lol

 

[duffers20]

There is some light setting, the word begins with V, can't remember what it is, but that has a big effect on performance.

 

[shaun forsdyke]

Thanks for all your help. Im just about to load up the demo but surely the listed recommended system requirements should cover bumpmapping and special lighting??

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Btw, what resolution are you running it at?

 

[Jimmeh]

Volumetric lighting is the killer in the F.E.A.R demo. Tone that down and it'll run a lot better The game seems to be pretty tough on all computers so I wouldn't worry too much.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

There's really no way to tell what the equivelant is, since amd and intel cpus perform better in different areas.

 

[shaun forsdyke]

resolution 1024 x 768 x 32. I turned off volumetric lighting and it still wasnt great. I heard others were having problems running the game at max detail.

It just annoys me that the best computer in the world cant run it on max !

Thanks again for everyones help.

On a sidenote, the demo isnt as great as I had hoped for

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Heh, it is FAR from "the best computer in the world" but it should be running everything pretty good.

Edit: I just made what i consider to be "the best pc in the world" AMD Athlon X57 San Diego Core, 4 Gigs PC3200 RAM, 2 BFG 7800GTXs, ABIT Fatal1ty A8N SLI motherboard, 2 147gig 15k RPM fujitsu hardrives, and more. Anyone got $5300 to spare?

 

[FictiousWill]

Bumpmapping(or mipmapping) is a bitch on all cards.

Bumpmapping is not mipmapping, and they're pretty easy on video cards. The reason why bump maps and normal maps exist is to take strain off of cards rendering triangles. Mipmapping is something else altogether, it's like lod for texture maps.

 

[Asus]

In games, an Athlon 3500+ is greater than a 3.7GHz Pentium 4. link

Your CPU should be more than enough to handle FEAR. I have a 3000+ and it is able to handle FEAR and the physics etc.

FEAR is like Doom3, it uses stencil shadows so it's going to be a bit more ruff on your X800 then a 6800 card.

 

[shaun forsdyke]

I dont think all the money in the world could buy that? Could it?

 

[shaun forsdyke]

Didnt see page 2.

Asus, is it the shadows that are causing the most strain on my system? Doom ran perfectly, a pity that was poo too.

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

So far ive got 850$ saved, and im getting my next paycheck of $320 next week sometimes. As much as id like to spend 5k on a computer, it just doesnt make any sense to me. I can buy a $1500 computer that'll play any game right now on the highest settings.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

So far ive got 850$ saved, and im getting my next paycheck of $320 next week sometimes. As much as id like to spend 5k on a computer, it just doesnt make any sense to me. I can buy a $1500 computer that'll play any game right now on the highest settings.

Grab a cheap venice core, a gig of ram good for overclocking, and a 7800gtx.

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Heh exactly what im saving for. AMD 3500+, a gig of RAM, BFG, or XFX 7800GTX, and an SLI mobo incase i decide i want another 7800 when it gets older.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

I would rather go with a 3000+ and spend more money on other parts. The 3000 and 3500 use the same core, my friends have gotten their core speed over 2.6 ghz with a little tweaking. The newer revision should make it easier to tweak ram speeds. Good overclocking ram is a good investment.

 

[giant384]

resolution 1024 x 768 x 32. I turned off volumetric lighting and it still wasnt great. I heard others were having problems running the game at max detail.

It just annoys me that the best computer in the world cant run it on max !

Thanks again for everyones help.

On a sidenote, the demo isnt as great as I had hoped for

y go that high on resolution it looks no different with 640xaugh i dont remember lol its will only be smaller in screenshots

 

[3ssence]

I agree with asus, your system should be able to run fear fine. However fear is extremely intensive on the system. The shadows imparticular are very strenous on the graphics card. I turned them off and my fps nearly doubled in some areas.

But my system (see sig) runs fear smoothly at 1600 x 1200, with most settings on max, and some medium, minus shadows. I would expect your system to be able to run fear at 1280 x 1024, mixture of max and medium, smoothly.

Have you turned off antialiasing ? And turned anisotropic filtering down to a reasonable level, say 2 or 4 x ? And try disabling the shadows.

 

[shaun forsdyke]

Just turned off shadows and it ran a treat.

Not sure if ill buy the game though.

Thanks for the help people.

 

[NeptuneUK]

what graphics card that wont break the bank would you guys recommend that will run FEAR with shadows. im upgrading GPU after i upgrade mobo+processor. id like one that will last me several years but isnt too costly

 

[Asus]

what graphics card that wont break the bank would you guys recommend that will run FEAR with shadows. im upgrading GPU after i upgrade mobo+processor. id like one that will last me several years but isnt too costly

What's your budget? If you what to focus on games like D3 and FEAR then the plain 6800 comes to mind.

 

[bosox188]

Yeah 6800 plain would be the best bet as it can do stencil shadowing well.

 

[NeptuneUK]

thats perfect. thanks 256 bit too

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Afternoon,

I have an

AMD Athlon 64 processor
3500+
2.20ghz 1.00gb ram

If you were to relate this to a Pentium, what would it be?

Regards
Shaun

Although your comp is a 2.20GHz, it is roughly the same speed as a pentium 3.5GHz