Dec 06, 2008, 12:46 AM
technically all you needed to do was mat_queue 2, as previously stated an E5200 wolfsdale is overkill for 99% of games (the exception being RTS's like Supreme Commander). Hell, you can overclock the wolfsdale and it will run crysis just as well as any quad-core or dual-core extreme.
crudely, videogames today are:
5% cpu power
5% ram speed
90% gpu power
exceptions being that ram speed won't bottleneck anything unless it is below ddr333, you don't even need DDr2 unless you are heavily overclocking your system.
Hard drive speed will affect loading speeds, but any SATA drive will be so fast that you won't notice the difference between that and if you payed for a 1000$ solid-state. (serial ATA's bandwidth is maxed out by cheap hard drives, all you can really improve is seek times, which has more to do with hardware fragmentation)
As for the submerged computer, there are still some problems with that which I will wait to be worked out. (namely the fact that submerging a hard drive in anything will allow the medium to get past the dust filters inevitably destroying it, and if oil seeps between electrical contacts then it will make the said contact cease functioning, this could destroy a CPU)
crudely, videogames today are:
5% cpu power
5% ram speed
90% gpu power
exceptions being that ram speed won't bottleneck anything unless it is below ddr333, you don't even need DDr2 unless you are heavily overclocking your system.
Hard drive speed will affect loading speeds, but any SATA drive will be so fast that you won't notice the difference between that and if you payed for a 1000$ solid-state. (serial ATA's bandwidth is maxed out by cheap hard drives, all you can really improve is seek times, which has more to do with hardware fragmentation)
As for the submerged computer, there are still some problems with that which I will wait to be worked out. (namely the fact that submerging a hard drive in anything will allow the medium to get past the dust filters inevitably destroying it, and if oil seeps between electrical contacts then it will make the said contact cease functioning, this could destroy a CPU)
/sarcasm