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Am I expecting too much..seems slow

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Rippermac

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Just built 2 systems this weekend specs are as follows...A64 3200 on a MSI K8N Neo2 with 1gig DDR, SATA drive and a BFG 6800GT (AGP)...second system is a A64 3000 on a MSI K8N Neo4 with 1gig DDR, SATA drive and Powercolor 800XL PCIe Video card...wanted to see if there would be any improvement over my personal system which consists of [email protected] and a Radeon 800Pro....so I ran the latest version of FutureMark just to see...ran like crap!! I'm no novice so I make sure I have the latest drivers tried again and same results...so I tried ripping and converting a DVD and no kidding my personal system ripped and converted the DVD 20 minutes faster than the others!!! No way a RAID array should make that much of a differnce right? So I'm second guessing myself by..I must have messed up somewhere...verify everything is as it should and install Tribes Vengeance and Far Cry which these video cards should have no problems with...and no matter what res I run at I have stuttering and hesitations!!!! I'm really confused now so I'm here for help....on paper these two systems should be at least equal to or spank my personal system....am I expecting too much? What or where could I possible have gone wrong with these? Did I steer the buyers of these in the wrong direction?
 
Hrmm, now that you mention it my Leadtek 6600GT TDH is doing that studdering stuff also, I've tried that latest 71.84 drivers, diffferent mem timings, tried the board oc'd alittle. Nothing seemed to help on this Neo4 Platinum. I'm just starting to think it's a MSI thing i swear. So the P4 sytem has no studdering then?

Oh and just out of curiousity, What PSU's are you using?
 
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dude, i'm running an ancient FX5600 on my rig and i dont get any stu-stu-stuttering in Far Cry. (details high, 1024 rez, no anti-aliasing coz its an FX).

and yeah, DVD encoding and ripping is the P4 specialty. gaming is the A64's strength. maybe you should be in Far Cry or Nvidia forums with these issues?
 
Installed and ran Ntune on K8N Neo4 and don't know what it did but gameing performance is now excellent!!! No more lags even with max res!!! So for that I'm extremely happy...guess maybe the raw speed of the oc P4 makes it better for encoding...guess I wont be jumping over to AMD again for my personal system since I do quite a bit of encoding....geez I sure was hoping these systems would whoop my P4....guess I'll wait until there's clear advantage before my next upgrade....
 
i do maybe 90% gaming and 10% encoding, so i'm sticking with AMD.

how fast does divx5 take on your computer, say a simple 1pass with 1300kbs Vid Quality? It takes about half hour to 40 minutes. but i'm not complaining. my old Athlon 700mhz used to take about 8 to 10 hours for the same thing. :)
 
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