New Final Fantasy XI Benchmark

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Nice... upgrading my motherboard drivers took the low-res bench from 3240 up to 3900!  :wicked:
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what was the old mobo that you had?

btw. with my Athlon XP 2000 w/ 512 ddr , which GFX card should i get
GF 4 Ti 42 46 or 48 ?
 
btw. with my Athlon XP 2000 w/ 512 ddr , which GFX card should i get GF 4 Ti 42 46 or 48 ?
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Get whichever one you are willing to pay for. You may also want to consider one of the high-end ATi cards, such as the Radeon 9800, because AFAIK all the GF4's have window problems with ff7pc in direct3d mode. But it's your decision.
 
There are Window problems with FF7, but they are easily fixed with Rivatuner...  And GF4Ti are way cheaper than something like a Radeon 9800.
 
what was the old mobo that you had?
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I didn't upgrade the motherboard... just the drivers.  I've had the computer for a year and hadn't updated those mobo/chipset drivers... it's an enormous performance boost now that I have.
 
bah i'm too lazy... just save enough for an alienware set )


(ooooo shiny blue one...)
 
rofl... those overpriced junk heaps :)
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Overpriced i think you nailed it.. but junkheaps.. LoL thats a bit much.. while they are overpriced they are great machines.. just something you could probably throw together for much cheaper..
 
damn it wont show anything on my gf2mx all the 3d is greyed, maybe my voodoo 5.... naa
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Hmm....don't be too quick to count out the V5.  Ironically, one of the previous versions of the FFXI demo actually ran on my V5, but required Geometry Assist (in Win9x of course).

I don't know how much has changed between that version and this one, but like Caddberry, I'll be downloading and running for the sake of being funny.

No, I DON'T expect my V5 to score anything in comparison to what you get with your newer hardware.  I mean, it IS 3 year old hardware.  I just wanna see if it runs at all. :P

And as long as your careful what you install and so on, your Windows installation can last a long time.
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Indeed.  The last time I had to re-install Windows on this machine, was like 2-3 years ago.....and this is Win98SE.  So far, I still don't have anything serious messed up.

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Doh!  Spelling errors.....but not anymore. :D
 
Waha! I actually smoked you guys:
4984-L
3442-H

In regards to the Alienware casing--I personally find it weird. If you've ever actually seen one of those alien head cases up close, it has this indescribably weird plastic feel (at least the one I saw at the local Tech Expo did). It looks a lot cheesier in real life (since there's no fancy lighting or Photoshop retouching--unlike the pictures on Alienware's site.)

And as far as Windows life expectancy goes, My Win2K Pro machine has been rock stable ever since I got it 3+ years ago. My Win98SE box has lasted for 5 years, but the 3D card driver temporarily futzed up at the 3 year point. A simple restore fixed that--didn't even lose anything. Now a fan in that machine's died, but that's not exactly related to Windows... =P
 
An ATI Radeon 9600 (not pro.) They're pretty cheap--roughly $110 (U.S.) most places. I got mine for about $90. I hear they're pretty overclockable, too, although I haven't really needed to so far.

I have no idea what results I'd get with current drivers. My theory is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So I'm still using old 6.14.xxx ones.
 
Oh yeah..you can have your windows OS on your computer for years at a time. But slowly and surely, it will get to the point where it is a total suckage to start windows. I guess I'm really picky about my windows installations. Usually when there is some petty screw-up, like a few seconds of extra loading time in windows that shouldn't be there, it's time to reinstall. It's not like reinstalling windows is a bad thing. All you do is deltree the windows directory, and run setup again. No biggie. There is nothing better than a fresh installation of windows. Can I get an amen?

The longest period where I've not reloaded has been 2 months, and the reason why I even reinstalled was because my USB drivers totally fucked themselves, and I couldn't get USB-dependant devices to work properly. I didn't do anything at all; windows chose to screw itself up.

As for my current installation of XP, I am seriously pissed at it. FF7pc screws up once and I have to restart. Now it won't stop bothering me to scandisk my HD. It won't stop doing it. So now, it bugs me about scanning at startup no matter what, and I have about 15 extra seconds sitting there like a jackass at the "welcome" screen. I won't let XP take advantage me. They can't make me scan if I don't want to.

*Flashes his XP Corporate cd in the light*
 
Well, yeah, that's just entropy at work. It's certainly not going to be limited to just Windows. Although my 98 machine actually has been relatively free from that. Boot time is actually about 10 seconds faster than when I first set it up (thanks--I assume--mainly to better drivers) and shut down speed is reasonable.
My Win2K has always had dinosaur boot times (5 minutes) but that's mostly a RAM issue. Overall software stability has always been...stable.

I really don't know about your XP issues. I'm actually one of the very few who was lucky enough to have FF7 work right of the box in XP. Anachronox, though, is a different story. So are old DOS games, which bites because I'm a nostalgia freak. Shut down takes longer the more my hard drive fills up, but I can live with that.

Anyway, I still primarily use my Win2K machine, though (which took a lot of work to get FF7 running.)
 
- XP doesn't usually have to scan if you are using an NTFS hard drive, due to NTFS's self-correcting nature.  You can't do this and keep your 98 installation, though.  I've only had it scan my NTFS drive after a crash once, and it did it all the time back when I had Win98 and FAT32 still around.
 - You can kill the "Welcome" screen... I certainly did.
 - 2 months?  My XP installation has crashed maybe once or twice since I reinstalled it back in June, and the only reason I reinstalled then was because I got a new motherboard.  I can run BootVis to make the boot fast again (not that I ever have to wait for it to boot... I hardly ever shut it down, just use Hibernate) and the system runs fine as long as you watch your background apps and so on.  There really is no reason for it to degrade over time if you take care of it.
 - Of course, I will have to say, Windows 2000/XP seem to be way better at lasting a long time than Windows 95/98 were.
 
what card should i get.
im trying to stay within the 150-200$ price range tops.
and i am running a athlon XP 2000 with 512DDR, so i dont
need a card that my processor cant take full advantage of.

$153  -  RADEON 9600 Pro Ultra
$157  -  RADEON 9600 Pro Ultimate
$120  -  RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB
$109  -  RADEON 9600 Pro 128MB

$129  -  GeForce4 TI 4800
$159  -  GeForce4 TI 4600
$170  -  GeForce4 TI 4600 8x AGP
$126  -  GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128MB
$125  -  GeForce FX 5600 256MB
$110  -  GeForce FX 5600 128MB
 
WHAT? $125 for Geforce fx 5600?!?!?  I paid 215 for mine like a month ago... Wtf?  Damn prices drop fast....


[Edit]  YAY!!! After a year and like 4 months I finally reach 100 posts!  Thats a milestone for me!!!
 
Sorry to bump this semi old topic but my scores are:

3529 - Hi
4449 - Lo

Geforce 4 ti 4200 (4X)
Amd Athlon Xp 2600
512mb DDR 333

TBH I think the Hi score might be wrong but I cba to rerun the test since the music drove me nuts
 
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