i went from having Nvidia FX5200 to a Sapphire HD3850. I also upgraded my PSU from the original 300w to a OCZ StealthXStream 600w to power the new card.
With the old FX 5200
NovaBench Score: 146
04/09/2008 14:25:27
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.06GHz @ 3087 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
1024 MB System RAM (Score: 40)
CPU Tests (Score: 71)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 39117144
- Integer Operations/Second: 12428791
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 2760
Graphics Tests (Score: 21)
- Random Lines Drawn/Second: 9628
- Random Shapes Drawn/Second: 3524
Hardware Tests (Score: 14)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 114 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 7.28 MB/s
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With the new Sapphire HD3850
NovaBench Score: 131
04/09/2008 15:16:55
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.06GHz @ 3087 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3850
1024 MB System RAM (Score: 40)
CPU Tests (Score: 50)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 29796081
- Integer Operations/Second: 6886346
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 22708
Graphics Tests (Score: 25)
- Random Lines Drawn/Second: 12404
- Random Shapes Drawn/Second: 3249
Hardware Tests (Score: 16)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 114 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 8.62 MB/s
This isn't a major problem but if im losing out on performance that i dont need to be i'd like to know.
Many thanks,
Chris
Edited by aminal, 04 September 2008 - 10:26 AM.