What was YOUR biggest system performance jump ever?

Max0r · 09-30-06, 11:57 AM

This was mine... (you will see the format, before/after)

BEFORE
Several years ago I was using a 200 MHz Pentium 2 Dell with a 20GB 5400 RPM hdd (quantums rock!) and 32 megs of PC-66 RAM... using Windows 98 SE... the video card didn't even support OpenGL... I played Starcraft on it, as well as Quake 1 and Quake 2 at like 320x200 and 320x240 respectively (ran pretty well, hehe). Diablo 1 ran awesome on it, Diablo 2... well... I tolerated the extreme lag because I loved the game so much. And this was the system I played with at LAN parties.. my friend's system, an HP 450 MHz P3 with 256MB RAM (or 128) and a voodoo 5 PCI, totally smoked mine.

This system was so bad that 80% of my time spent outside of games was waiting for the pagefile swap to clear up.

AFTER
750 MHz Duron (underclocked to 500 due to horrible cooling), ABIT KT7-A, 768MB PC-133 RAM @ 100 (the clincher!), Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, 80 GB seagate 5400 rpm, Windows 2000!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Completely smoked my old system... most likely it was the RAM. No more virtual memory swap lag, everything was so SMOOTH... and I could finally run the hottest new games I had to try out... Half Life, Q3A... Counter-Strike, UT!!!!!!! w000t!!!!!!! It was great having 20-30 things open and not lagging

Since then I've never exprienced such an insane performance jump, but I have nonetheless experienced big ones (but nothin close to this)... but I'll save those for another time

OkydOky · 09-30-06, 12:04 PM

This was a Great jump My Dad DID: (With My Help.. hehehe )

Before:
XP 1800+
512 MB Ram
Geforce3Ti500

After

AMD Athlong X2 4200+
1024 MB Ram
Geforce 7800GT

Another jump -- Using parts from This old one..

Before:
PIII 650
256MB Ram
RIVA TNT2

After:

AMD XP 1800+
512MB RAM
Radeon 9600XT

Mr. Roboto · 09-30-06, 12:10 PM

pIII 800 mhz integrated graphics 256mb ram to my p4 2.8 with 6600GT and 1.5gb. Good times.

Opteron 1100 · 09-30-06, 12:23 PM

AXPM 2500 with 1 gig ram , 6600 gt
now
Opteron 175 2 gig ram 7800 gs

Nephewkp · 09-30-06, 12:33 PM

It is hard for me to decide but it is between the two:

286 @16MHz, 640KB ram, 30MB HD, DOS 3.1, VGA graphics w/ 15" Goldstar VGA monitor

To:

P1 @90MHz, 16MB ram, 1.6GB HD, Win 95, SVGA graphics w/1MB memory...but the same Goldstar VGA monitor

Or...

P1 @133MHz, 128MB ram, 1.6GB HD, win98, integrated Daytona graphics w/1MB memory, crappy 15" SVGA compaq monitor

To:

P4 @3GHz, 1GB ram, 120GB HD, winXP pro, Radeon 7200 VIVO, crappy interlaced 17" monitor

InThrees · 09-30-06, 01:02 PM

In a rather short time I did the following:

K6-2-450, 256mb, 20gb maxtor 7200, Riva tnt (I think a tnt) to a

P3-600B, 512mb, same 20gb drive, same vid card, to a

AthlonXP 2000+, 512mb pc2700, 80gb seagate, Ti4200.

=p

Bios24 · 09-30-06, 01:12 PM

I usually make pretty steady large jumps, ie:
900mhz Athlon to a stock XP 2100+ (and 512mb to 1gb)
XP 2100+ to a mobile XP 2600+ at 2.4ghz
The mobile XP to my now Opteron 146 at 2.7ghz (and 1gb to 2gb)
Next jump will probably be an X2 hopefully around 3.0ghz

Video cards are kinda the same way:
Ti4200 to a 6800NU (and 6800GS when I switched to PCI-e)
Next jump will either be a high 7-series or possibly a mid-range 8-series

Granted, this covers the past 5 years or so.....I usually upgrade small stuff every 6 months, and large upgrades are usually 1-1.5 years. (large stuff usually also means an OS reinstall)

jcw122 · 09-30-06, 01:14 PM

Before:
-Compaq Computer
-2.7ghz Celeron
-256MB system RAM
-onboard video

AFTER:
-My Sig. Rig

Currently, the biggest increase in performance that I've NOTICEABLY seen with my own system, is OCing my 9800XT's memory by 40mhz...I noticed a HUGE jump in FPS while playing F.E.A.R. it went up by 15-20FPS and I can now play it fairly smoothly online.

redrumy3 · 09-30-06, 01:15 PM

p4 2.4ghz
some asus board
512mb ram
TI4400
40gb hdd

To

amd 64 3700+
asrock 939dual-sataII
1gb geil pc-3200
80gb hdd
Xfx 6800GS PCI-E
450 modstream

and then to

Amd 64 X2 4400+ 89W
Dfi Lanparty Ultra-D
320gb Seagate 7200.10 Sata
2gb Gskill Extreme DDR500
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Zs
Gigabyte DVD/RW
X1800XT 512mb
OCZ 600Watt Gamexstream

love my current rig

SeasonalEclipse · 09-30-06, 01:45 PM

Celeron 600 (P3 based) 64MB PC100

toooo
Pentium 4 @ 2.6 Ghz with a gig of ram

tooooo
3200+ Clawhammer with a gig of ram.. Not much of a jump there but yeah.. thats my basic computer history!

sephiroth_749 · 09-30-06, 01:58 PM

p3
512
9200se

to my sig

dfonda · 09-30-06, 02:38 PM

P233 128Mb to a P4 1.8GHZ 512Mb to a P4 OCed 3.5GHZ 2GB ram

Vipersfate · 09-30-06, 02:59 PM

AMD K6 400Mhz 96 Megs Ram, some onboard 4mb video

to

Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Prescott
..well, the rig in my sig.

benbaked · 09-30-06, 03:32 PM

Before

Celeron 466mhz
256mb PC66 SDRAM

After

Athlon XP 1600+
768mb PC2100 DDR

That was the biggest jump, everything else has been incremental. I used the Celeron as my main system for a long time.

Seven · 09-30-06, 03:35 PM

I think I win this one.

Before:

Pentium I 96MHz (what a beast)
Diamond Multimedia 3D Accelerator 4MB
128MB RAM

After:

Pentium 4 2.4B
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
512MB PC-2100 RAM

Although mech warrior 2 did run really smooth for quite some time. And somehow it managed to play Flight Simulator 2000. No joke.

damarble · 09-30-06, 03:42 PM

I can't say for sure which my biggest was, but there where two big jumps. First from a P1 133/64mb ram/4mb gpu/6gb hdd, to a P3 850/256mb ram/16mb gpu/40gb hdd. The next big jump was from that P3 to a Celeron 2.4 at 4.2/1gb ram/120gb hdd/6600GT. The latter was probably the biggest boost I guess, but the P1 to P3 was a huge deal to me too, it let me play a ton of games that I had been drooling over.

Shell · 09-30-06, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seven

I think I win this one.
Before:
Pentium I 96MHz (what a beast)
Diamond Multimedia 3D Accelerator 4MB
128MB RAM
After:
Pentium 4 2.4B
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
512MB PC-2100 RAM
Although mech warrior 2 did run really smooth for quite some time. And somehow it managed to play Flight Simulator 2000. No joke.

You won.

As for myself...
Before: Intel P4 1.7Ghz Radeon 7800, 700mb ram.
After: Da' current rig in ma' sig. At 2.6Ghz 24/7.

Femto · 09-30-06, 03:52 PM

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ / 512mb RAM / 9600

AMD 64 3000+ / 2GB RAM / X1800GTO

Nothing amazing, really, but I did notice, especially since I could play most games on high settings with no lag :P

JDXNC · 09-30-06, 04:23 PM

I think my biggest jump was from an AMD 486 DX4 120MHz to an AMD K6-2 450, and the next would be the k6-2 to a Duron 1GHz.

manbush · 09-30-06, 04:54 PM

First:
Compaq Presario 450mhz, 64mb PC66 ram, 10 gig Quantom HD, Windows 98, 2mb video card.

Second:
AMD XP 2000+, 512mb PC2600 ram, 32 TNT2 video card, 100 gig HD, Windows 2000

Third:
Pentium 4 3ghz HT, 1.5 gig PC3200, 128MB Geforce 5200, 2x 80 gig, Windows XP

Fourth:
E6400 Core 2 Duo, 2x 1gig PC6400 ram, 1x 74 gig Raptor, 1x 250 gig, 1x 400 gig, Geforce 6800XT

09-30-06, 11:57 AM	Thread Starter #1
Max0r Member Join Date: Oct 2005	What was YOUR biggest system performance jump ever? This was mine... (you will see the format, before/after) BEFORE Several years ago I was using a 200 MHz Pentium 2 Dell with a 20GB 5400 RPM hdd (quantums rock!) and 32 megs of PC-66 RAM... using Windows 98 SE... the video card didn't even support OpenGL... I played Starcraft on it, as well as Quake 1 and Quake 2 at like 320x200 and 320x240 respectively (ran pretty well, hehe). Diablo 1 ran awesome on it, Diablo 2... well... I tolerated the extreme lag because I loved the game so much. And this was the system I played with at LAN parties.. my friend's system, an HP 450 MHz P3 with 256MB RAM (or 128) and a voodoo 5 PCI, totally smoked mine. This system was so bad that 80% of my time spent outside of games was waiting for the pagefile swap to clear up. AFTER 750 MHz Duron (underclocked to 500 due to horrible cooling), ABIT KT7-A, 768MB PC-133 RAM @ 100 (the clincher!), Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, 80 GB seagate 5400 rpm, Windows 2000! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Completely smoked my old system... most likely it was the RAM. No more virtual memory swap lag, everything was so SMOOTH... and I could finally run the hottest new games I had to try out... Half Life, Q3A... Counter-Strike, UT!!!!!!! w000t!!!!!!! It was great having 20-30 things open and not lagging Since then I've never exprienced such an insane performance jump, but I have nonetheless experienced big ones (but nothin close to this)... but I'll save those for another time __________________ What was your biggest performance jump ever? - Lapping can yield large temp reductions Heat
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OkydOky Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada	This was a Great jump My Dad DID: (With My Help.. hehehe ) Before: XP 1800+ 512 MB Ram Geforce3Ti500 After AMD Athlong X2 4200+ 1024 MB Ram Geforce 7800GT Another jump -- Using parts from This old one.. Before: PIII 650 256MB Ram RIVA TNT2 After: AMD XP 1800+ 512MB RAM Radeon 9600XT __________________ The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
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Opteron 1100 Member Join Date: Sep 2006	AXPM 2500 with 1 gig ram , 6600 gt now Opteron 175 2 gig ram 7800 gs
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Nephewkp Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Champaign, Illinois	It is hard for me to decide but it is between the two: 286 @16MHz, 640KB ram, 30MB HD, DOS 3.1, VGA graphics w/ 15" Goldstar VGA monitor To: P1 @90MHz, 16MB ram, 1.6GB HD, Win 95, SVGA graphics w/1MB memory...but the same Goldstar VGA monitor Or... P1 @133MHz, 128MB ram, 1.6GB HD, win98, integrated Daytona graphics w/1MB memory, crappy 15" SVGA compaq monitor To: P4 @3GHz, 1GB ram, 120GB HD, winXP pro, Radeon 7200 VIVO, crappy interlaced 17" monitor
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09-30-06, 01:02 PM	#6
InThrees Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Southeast US	In a rather short time I did the following: K6-2-450, 256mb, 20gb maxtor 7200, Riva tnt (I think a tnt) to a P3-600B, 512mb, same 20gb drive, same vid card, to a AthlonXP 2000+, 512mb pc2700, 80gb seagate, Ti4200. =p
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Bios24 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Kansas City, MO	I usually make pretty steady large jumps, ie: 900mhz Athlon to a stock XP 2100+ (and 512mb to 1gb) XP 2100+ to a mobile XP 2600+ at 2.4ghz The mobile XP to my now Opteron 146 at 2.7ghz (and 1gb to 2gb) Next jump will probably be an X2 hopefully around 3.0ghz Video cards are kinda the same way: Ti4200 to a 6800NU (and 6800GS when I switched to PCI-e) Next jump will either be a high 7-series or possibly a mid-range 8-series Granted, this covers the past 5 years or so.....I usually upgrade small stuff every 6 months, and large upgrades are usually 1-1.5 years. (large stuff usually also means an OS reinstall) __________________ Antec P180 - Corsair HX520W - Dell 2005fpw Opteron 165 <Currently 280x9 1.35v> DFI NF4 Ultra-D - 2gb G.Skill 3-4-4-8@250mhz 320gb+200gb Seagate - XFX 6800GS 500/1.2ghz Sound Blaster X-Fi - BA7900 5.1 Surround Thermalright XP-90C - <The Quiet Overclock> [ HEATWARE ]
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09-30-06, 01:14 PM	#8
jcw122 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: USA	Before: -Compaq Computer -2.7ghz Celeron -256MB system RAM -onboard video AFTER: -My Sig. Rig Currently, the biggest increase in performance that I've NOTICEABLY seen with my own system, is OCing my 9800XT's memory by 40mhz...I noticed a HUGE jump in FPS while playing F.E.A.R. it went up by 15-20FPS and I can now play it fairly smoothly online. __________________ "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!" Folding for Team 32! Gaming Nick: new_Faction64 or CharminULTRA CPU-AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0Ghz@2.2Ghz (was 2.4) Socket 754, VENICE Memory-Crucial Ballistix 2x512MB @ 220mhz 2.5-2-2-5 Motherboard-No Idea My DFI Died Video Card-MSI ATI 9800XT---412/390(was 424/395)---w00t! Flashed PSU-Forton Blue Storm 500w Currently Air Cooled w/ Scythe Ninja and AC VGA Silencer R.I.P. Project: Humidity Heatware
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redrumy3 Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York	p4 2.4ghz some asus board 512mb ram TI4400 40gb hdd To amd 64 3700+ asrock 939dual-sataII 1gb geil pc-3200 80gb hdd Xfx 6800GS PCI-E 450 modstream and then to Amd 64 X2 4400+ 89W Dfi Lanparty Ultra-D 320gb Seagate 7200.10 Sata 2gb Gskill Extreme DDR500 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Zs Gigabyte DVD/RW X1800XT 512mb OCZ 600Watt Gamexstream love my current rig __________________ Corsair H80 i5 2500K 4.5Ghz 1.33v GSkill Sniper DDR3-1600 1.25v Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P F7 2 x Seagate 7200.12 500GB Raid 0 Corsair 750TX \| Asus Xonar Essence STX Adata S599 60GB SSD OS \| XFX 6970 2GB Sennheiser HD-555 Mod \| Asus VH242HL Logitech G9x \| Logitech G15v2 \| Corsair C70 Windows 7 SP1 64-Bit Heat Steam
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SeasonalEclipse Member Join Date: Feb 2006	Celeron 600 (P3 based) 64MB PC100 toooo Pentium 4 @ 2.6 Ghz with a gig of ram tooooo 3200+ Clawhammer with a gig of ram.. Not much of a jump there but yeah.. thats my basic computer history! __________________ The Beast(Main)- P5QL/EPU, Q9550, 4GB DDR2 800, 2X320GB Perp, 750GB Cavalier,8800GT(for now) Corsair 750 Watt PSU, Enermax server case, 2x Dell 1908WFP, Vista Home http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=51210
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sephiroth_749 Top ranking SOLDIER officer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Park Hills, Missouri	p3 512 9200se to my sig __________________ The Hindenburg Athlon 64 3800+ A8N SLI Deluxe 2x512 OCZ Gold PC3200 WD 160gb eVGA 7900GT Sound Blaster 24 Bit Sunbeam 550W http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=52575
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dfonda Senior Member Premium Member #16 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: PA N. of Splat W. of Torin	P233 128Mb to a P4 1.8GHZ 512Mb to a P4 OCed 3.5GHZ 2GB ram __________________ #1Win7Rosetta2600k@4.5GHZ(Hyper212+)Msi P67 G65 16GB RAM evga560Ti #2UbuntuSMP BA 4P 6128's on a SuperMicro Phones:GNexus, Nexus 4, Galaxy S2(PGNexusROM), iphone5 Folding for Tim and his wife, Mark and his wife,Pete_Scout Oldskool and Adak
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Vipersfate Member Join Date: Jan 2006	AMD K6 400Mhz 96 Megs Ram, some onboard 4mb video to Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Prescott ..well, the rig in my sig. __________________ The Rig: : AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ Stock : Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H : 16GB DDR3 1333 Mushkin : Asus EAH5750-1GB : Big Daddy Server : Under Construction : The Lappy : Intel Centrino 1.6Ghz : HP DV1217US : 2GB DDR : Intel Extreme Graphics 2 : The Server : Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 1MB : Optiplex 280: 1GB DDR2 800 : ATi 3650HD :
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09-30-06, 03:32 PM	#14
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WA	Before Celeron 466mhz 256mb PC66 SDRAM After Athlon XP 1600+ 768mb PC2100 DDR That was the biggest jump, everything else has been incremental. I used the Celeron as my main system for a long time. __________________ HEATWARE (22-0) \| Folding/SETI/Rosetta (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) *My computer hardware is too old and embarrassing to list in my sig.* StaTek is my hero
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09-30-06, 03:35 PM	#15
Seven Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Los Angeles	I think I win this one. Before: Pentium I 96MHz (what a beast) Diamond Multimedia 3D Accelerator 4MB 128MB RAM After: Pentium 4 2.4B ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 512MB PC-2100 RAM Although mech warrior 2 did run really smooth for quite some time. And somehow it managed to play Flight Simulator 2000. No joke. __________________ HEAT!
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09-30-06, 03:42 PM	#16
damarble Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Spokane, WA	I can't say for sure which my biggest was, but there where two big jumps. First from a P1 133/64mb ram/4mb gpu/6gb hdd, to a P3 850/256mb ram/16mb gpu/40gb hdd. The next big jump was from that P3 to a Celeron 2.4 at 4.2/1gb ram/120gb hdd/6600GT. The latter was probably the biggest boost I guess, but the P1 to P3 was a huge deal to me too, it let me play a ton of games that I had been drooling over. __________________ Antec P180B \| Seasonic S12-500 \| ASUS P5B Deluxe \| E6600 C2D \| ATI HD5770 \| OCZ Reaper PC6400 2x2GB \| 2TB total storage \| 2x HP 23" LCD \| Logitech Z-640 5.1 speakers \| Logitech G15 and G5 DELUXE My HEAT
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09-30-06, 03:52 PM	#18
Femto Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon	AMD Athlon XP 2000+ / 512mb RAM / 9600 AMD 64 3000+ / 2GB RAM / X1800GTO Nothing amazing, really, but I did notice, especially since I could play most games on high settings with no lag :P __________________ Main - Core 2 Duo e6300 - Asus P5K-E - eVGA 8800GTS 320mb - 2gb G.Skill DDR2-800 - Antec NeoHE 500w - WD 500gb SATA - Lite-on DVD±RW SATA - Heatware
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09-30-06, 04:23 PM	#19
JDXNC Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Québec, Canada Èh?	I think my biggest jump was from an AMD 486 DX4 120MHz to an AMD K6-2 450, and the next would be the k6-2 to a Duron 1GHz. __________________ Desktop: AMD Phenom 9550 @ 2.6Ghz @ 1.25v Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 \| OCZ Gold XTC PC2-6400 4 X 1GB G.Skill Phoenix 60GB SSD \| Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB \| Radeon HD 3650 512MB \| Dual 19" LCD's Heatware
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09-30-06, 04:54 PM	#20
manbush Member Join Date: Sep 2006	First: Compaq Presario 450mhz, 64mb PC66 ram, 10 gig Quantom HD, Windows 98, 2mb video card. Second: AMD XP 2000+, 512mb PC2600 ram, 32 TNT2 video card, 100 gig HD, Windows 2000 Third: Pentium 4 3ghz HT, 1.5 gig PC3200, 128MB Geforce 5200, 2x 80 gig, Windows XP Fourth: E6400 Core 2 Duo, 2x 1gig PC6400 ram, 1x 74 gig Raptor, 1x 250 gig, 1x 400 gig, Geforce 6800XT Last edited by manbush; 09-30-06 at 05:00 PM.
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