Phenom black 9850 Gaming performance ? Cooler for overclocking and memory.

[DrPepper]

its been a few months since i last used vista cause its crap, but is that 33% free memory or used

Yes but imagine IM, plus web browsing, music and gaming. 33% free of 4gb if that was 2gb it would be 66% logically.

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

wtf is imagine im, some peoples lingo or slang is whack is hear lol, your saying u only have 33% free with no applcation running sorry i dont believe that

 

[DrPepper]

wtf is imagine im, some peoples lingo or slang is whack is hear lol, your saying u only have 33% free with no applcation running sorry i dont believe that

im = instant messaging. To say my lingo is whack or hear and lol and wtf is kinda hypocritic. If I was to write on tech power up the way I speak you wouldn't understand any of it. You don't believe i'm not running anything. Ok fair enough I restarted my computer to clear the superfetch and down about 2%. Now don't say that isn't enough evidence to change your belief.

The middle screenie was taken after I turned VLC player on thats why its inconsistent.

 

[MilkyWay]

system is using 880mb for im only running anti virus utorrent and spybot think deamon drive is running too oh rivatuner

4gb is pretty cheap too

 

[DrPepper]

Anyway back on track, A 9850 BE was what I was going to get but it ended up being cheaper for me to get a q6600 and a 780i but thats because I didn't have a proper motherboard to support it. I think it would be a more than adequate cpu

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

thats with application running, i think u got misinturpreted from what i was asking. if theres nothing running no application nothing at all, and u run a game like crysis 2gb of ram is enough. anyways the phenom is a waste of money, to upgrade from amd 6000+

 

[DrPepper]

No one runs a pc with no applications, that would be pointless.

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

i do less is better

 

[DrPepper]

i do less is better

So what's the point in a pc if you just sit at the desktop with no apps on.

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

man i swear u must be blonde, i mean running one application like a game at one time, with only fraps, point proven 2gb is enough for vista, if u have 51 processes like dr pepper over hear, then maybe 3 to 4gb is better

 

[DrPepper]

man i swear u must be blonde, i mean running one application like a game at one time, with only fraps, point proven 2gb is enough for vista, if u have 51 processes like dr pepper over hear, then maybe 3 to 4gb is better

Man I swear you must be blonde you spelt here wrong. 51 processes being the OPERATING SYSTEM and VLC player and uTorrent. Anyway the OP will be tired of this and I will stop and go to bed since my time is better spent sleeping than arguing about my own pc of which you know nothing about.

My opinion is that money spend on a quad BE is money well spent. Also investing in 4gb of DDR2 is also well spent since it is incredibly cheap.

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

i have 4gb of pc6400 dd2 ram but i choosed to use 2gb for my other rig, well power to ya

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

but u got one valid point 4gb well be the normal in the near future for game etc......

 

[Mandown]

man i swear u must be blonde, i mean running one application like a game at one time, with only fraps, point proven 2gb is enough for vista, if u have 51 processes like dr pepper over hear, then maybe 3 to 4gb is better

I disagree, when I tried vista with 2gb on this rig games were at times laggy, load up on windows took longer. when i play a game any game, I'm using 2gb and thats with the least amount of apps running. I say at least 4gb if your going to run games on vista. Spore if i play long enough more than 5 hours non-stop will use up to 3.5gb of memory. 4gb will run faster and smoother.

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

maybe so, then virtual memory kicks in, but for me anyways i never had problems, i play all the lastest titles like crysis, cod4, bf2, bioshock, assassin's creed, gow

 

[Mandown]

virtual memory is only a helper for some overflow, games need real memory to be efficient or you lose system performance. If i had my 2gb in and playing spore and a point it will just be very choppy and unplayable. Virtual only helps to a point, and then real memory is needed.

 

[The_Real_DeaL31]

dah really bump

 

[Darren]

Your CPU is 100% not bottlenecking you, stop talking to these 3D Marks junkies as they are giving you bad advice I'm surprise that a lot of these so called geeks haven't realised that getting 60FPS in new games at a resolution of 1280x1024 which is a pretty low resolution by today's standard should be attainable with your current equipment. Although I do recommend a 9950 BE/9850 BE don't feel pressured into a possible unnecessary purchase.
LifeOnMars post screenshots of every tab in CPU-Z, GPU-Z and task manager's "performance" and "processes" tab.

like i said mostly all games don't use more then 1.5gb, except for games like supcom, look if hes on a budget stick with 2gb, if he wasent to be future proof then get 4gb or more

I've had Assassins Creed and AOE III use between 1-1.5 GB of ram and typically I can use up around 2 GB of from all the background applications that I launched prior to loading the game such as Skype, Hamachi, Messenger, Dreamweaver, Windows Media Player in the background, then loading up the game.

anyways the phenom is a waste of money, to upgrade from amd 6000+

Agreed! Not worth the extra 5-10 FPS, unless you're hoping to benefit in performance areas away from gaming as well.

Edit:

5-10 fps can be the difference between playable and lag. For example I went from a 6000X2 to a quad at 2.4ghz and games like supcom, flightsim X, crysis, world in conflict even sim city 4 all showed large increases in performance e.g from a minum of 20fps to constantly getting about 40fps.

Very true, 5-10 FPS is the difference between playable and lag e.g. say 15 FPS to 25 FPS is going from unplayable to playable. But did you move to quad just for the gaming performance or was there another ulterior motive in addition such as multimedia software, CAD software, encoding etc. I truly believe in the thread starter's situation an ATI 4850 should manage 60+ FPS especially at only 1280x1024 regardless of whether he is on dual or quad.

 

[DrPepper]

Agreed! Not worth the extra 5-10 FPS, unless you're hoping to benefit in performance areas away from gaming as well.

5-10 fps can be the difference between playable and lag. For example I went from a 6000X2 to a quad at 2.4ghz and games like supcom, flightsim X, crysis, world in conflict even sim city 4 all showed large increases in performance e.g from a minum of 20fps to constantly getting about 40fps.