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Tycho
Wanna-Be Webmaster
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 1041
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:48 am |
A lot of you have been inquiring lately about system specs and UT2004. I am going to run some tests on the UO rig with 256, 512 and 1 Gig of RAM and post the results for you later on this week. |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:57 am |
i use 1 gig of ram. it all goes perfect for me here!
but im interested in the test, so il be keeping na eye out for it  |
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Plumb_Drumb
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 856
Location: Denver, CO
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:43 pm |
sweet, I've been waiting for someone to do this.
There's so many benches on CPU and Videocards, but never on ram. |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:30 pm |
what does it acualy do? the ram in games? and other stuff for that mather.. |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:54 pm |
it, in conjunction with the processor and video card, allow you to get high framerates,
basically what the mem does is that it loads the portion of the game you are currently playing in into your memory and allows for extremely fast transition to different portions of anything...
i think...  |
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Gandalf
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:29 pm |
Well put Raven! Here's my definitions for what other things do....
CPU - does the actual processing in the game - what happens when you click the mouse? What should be shown when you move the mouse that way? That's the job of your CPU - Central Processing Unit 
Graphics card - Draws the actual frames, based on what the CPU tells it. Modern ones, as well has their own memory, have their own processor, so maybe it does some of the job of the CPU, I'm not really up on graphics cards technology.
Together with the RAM, they're the 3 main components in system performance.
Tycho - it would be good if you ran the benchmark on a few different computers with different CPU's/grahics cards, so we can see what the limiting factor is. |
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spongebob
Irix WAnnabe
Joined: 22 Jun 2003
Posts: 122
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:13 pm |
Yeah, the RAM comparison is a good idea. Lay to rest alot of speculation.
The whole CPU vs GPU vs RAM thing is better suited to AnandTech or other heavy duty Hardware Site. |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:47 pm |
tycho does still have his old Nvidia card i think... maby he'll be interested in doin some Benchmarking  |
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:59 pm |
That's what you get for thinking lol... he wouldn't be pimping the catalyst all the time if he was still an nVidiot (that is just a pun. no offense to nVidia people) |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:58 am |
nVidiot.. lol good one
thansk for the info guys. |
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Gandalf
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Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:07 pm |
Always a pleasure to teach noobs!
(A hardware noob that is  )
Seriously though, when it comes down to it computers are pretty amazing things, people take them for granted more and more these days but to get from a load of tiny electrical pulses to something like UT2004 is, well, amazing imo... |
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Tycho
Wanna-Be Webmaster
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 1041
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:15 pm |
Sup guys. I will be leaving work soon. Later on tonight I have to upgrade and test out the new ATI Cat's. This will be a perfect opportunity for me to do some RAM tests as well.
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:47 pm |
kewl, /me cant wait.
yep, im a hardware n00b 
prey sweet yes, how it can go from 1 electric pulse or no, to a 1 and a 0, to a game like ut2004.. |
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SirYawnalot
Rabid Poster
Joined: 23 Oct 2003
Posts: 233
Location: England
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Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:01 pm |
Pah... think that's impressive? Try remembering a Russian phone number. |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:27 am |
lol, why? so amny numbers? mine is so easym, its 222261... lol, cant be easyer wel i guess 222222 would be easyer 
got the results yet tycho? |
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