My Upgrade! Finally, after research here and there i finally upgraded my rusty old Pentium 4 to the following specs: E5400 @ 2.7ghz Asus P5KPL-AM SE 2GB DDr2 Ram HD4650 1GB GAMES ARE RUNNING SOO SMOOTH, and i am very happy! Unboxing PIC: http://i43.tinypic.com/r1bwqe.jpg Dirt 2 everything high and 4xMSAA at 1024x768 result: http://i42.tinypic.com/vzziuf.jpg Street Fighter 4 fixed fps benchmark all ultra with 8xMSAA: http://i39.tinypic.com/2nti64z.jpg Far Cry 2 benchmark at 1024x768 resolution all high with 2xAA and it avg is 30!! http://i40.tinypic.com/bvndg.jpg Crysis 1(it wasnt optimized well) benchmark results at 1024x768 resolution with the following settings: http://i43.tinypic.com/3165iq0.jpg And benchmarked with FRAPS and this was it!! Min:10 Max:50 AVG:33 And it was really smooth and with all set to medium its above 40 at avg, Resident Evil 5 maxed out fully at 1024x768!! http://i39.tinypic.com/j59u9z.jpg RAN MODERN WARFARE 2 AT 1024x768 WITH EVERYTHING SET TO EXTRA and Highest possible AA, and gotta admit it was sooo smooth!!! Modern Warfare 2 FPS: Min:30 Max:90 AVG:40-50 Bad Company 2 benchmarked with everything to highest possible at 1024x768 resolution but NO AA and AF along with HBAO off! Benchmarked with FRAPS, with following results: Min, Max, Avg 25, 60, 40 Assassins Creed 2 maxed out completely along with 2xMSAA at 1024x768 resolution, the following results; Min:25 Avg:37 Max:50 Windows Experience Index: http://i44.tinypic.com/2hnz3pu.jpg IS IT GOOD??
For how much you spent (I'm guessing $230 ?) its a very nice build. You pretty much built yourself something comparable to a xbox 360 or a PS3. The only thing i would advise is too buy another 2gb of ram. Your board supports 1066 ddr2 which you can buy 4gb (2x2) on newegg for around $100.
Overclocking will show no gains as my GPU is a bottleneck, correct me if i am wrong , coz my CPU went easily to 3.5ghz!!
Something obnoxious guys, this motherboard(P5KPL-AM SE) doesn't have a port to get my HP LaserJet 1100 running, is it normal? I mean do i have to buy a Printer to USB converter(if there exists any) to run this printer? Need quick help guys, so i am waiting!
^Its kinda old, and it has something bigger than a VGA port, rather much big!! It looks like this: http://www.horrorseek.com/home/halloween/wolfstone/Controllers/cbscon_PC_ParallelPort.jpg So does a converter exist which could change it into USB?
Looks like parallel connector So you need something like this http://tekgems.com/Products/tg-la-par03-c36m.htm
Yeah, that's a Printer Port, or Parallel port as it's also known. You could buy something like this, which is a PP to USB adapter which should let you run that old printer.
I'm suprised you saw no gains, at a res of 1024x768, you should see some especially in games like BC2
^^I just tried Crysis, which got 3 frames increment and Dirt 2 got 5 FPS increment, thats the only one tried!!
yeh nice vid, and what I meant is a 3 FPS incriment from overclocking is quite a bit, I went from stock to 3.8Ghz and only got about 4FPS, the change from my phenom 9850 was the big one, bringing a 13 FPS incriment
