[pike8]

hello everybody, i'm new to this forum.

yesterday i bought some new components, here is the old and the new configuration:

MB Asrock DUALSATA sck.939 ---> MB Gigabyte P35-S3G
Athlon 64 3200+ ---> Intel Core2Duo E8500
2GB DDR400 Kingston ---> 2GB DDRII 800 OCZ Platinum
HDD Hitachi DeskStar 160GB SATAII ---> HDD Hitachi DeskStar 160GB SATAII
GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 ---> GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 (HD4850 soon)
PSU Sharkoon SHA450-8P 450W ---> PSU Sharkoon SHA450-8P 450W

to be honest, it's not as fast as i expected... was i just expecting too much?

few things i've noticed:
- crysis loads much faster than before, but at all high except shaders and postprocessing that are on medium, i get around 12 FPS; all medium - 18-20 FPS;
- it takes windows to load same as before, if not a few seconds longer.

so, is there any program that i could run, it tests the components and their performance, overall system performance, i get the report, paste it here, and you tell me if everything works as it should?

[Hybr!d]

Games are pretty dependent on GFX cards, as this is the only part you have not changed I would not expect much change, except in load times due to the better CPU/RAM.

[thingie2]

3DMark06 works well, it gives you a numerical score at the end, just do that on both computers and compare the numbers. Also, you could try something like wprime, and do the 32M (speed test) one, this is also a good benchmarking tool. For 3DMark, the higher the score, the better, with Wprime, the lower the time taken, is better.

EDIT: Forgot about the graphics part, what Dave said is right, crysis won't work any better than before (or at least marginly) but you should notice a very large performance increase in games when you upgrade to the 4850

[pike8]

so you say i shouldn't be worried, that this is normal, and that i'll get major performance boost when i get a new vga (4850HD).

[thingie2]

Yes, basicly, you could try the benchmarks though, even though you don't notice that much difference, there most probably will be a reasonable amount.

[pike8]

i just ran 32M test, it was finished in 26 seconds. is that a good result for this CPU?

[thingie2]

Yea, that's pretty good, with my OCed CPU I get about 36 seconds, so it's rather good.