Recent Upgrades & Results

[loki]

Glad this thread has come up Malc. Rather foolishly, I swapped out my C2D Conroe E6600 for a Q6600 a few months back. Biggest waste of time or money. Still a bloody fast chip for encoding and ripping but game wise performance has really suffered. Load times for Company of Heroes is a good few seconds slower than on the old C2D.

I am thinking my next upgrade will be to go back to dual core and put this quad in a server.

Current rig

Q6600
2x2gb OCZ PC2 (5-5-5-18)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 4850
Foxconn P43 Mobo
Maxtor 160Gb S-ATA II HDD
Vista Ultimate 64

Scores on '06 are coming in at 11k. Lots of room for improvement there me thinks

[Pickers]

I really think we need a silenced video card for our downstairs computer. its using onboard gfx atm which is not great for Pheebs' design work, and really doesnt compliment the mobo and CPU we are running.

[Kreeeee]

I thought a lot of design apps don't use any form of GPU hardware acceleration.

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Kreeeee

I thought a lot of design apps don't use any form of GPU hardware acceleration.

Photoshop and the like do, but even a better graphics card should have better 2D speed, and larger memory which should provide some form of boost. The integrated card on the machine we've got hooked up to our telly is about GeForce 4 standard, and even for basic stuff like web surfing the upgrade to the 6200 is a big improvement (unfortunately PC only has a PCI slot, thank you muchly Dell)