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Question asked by Tom Nicholson on Jan 29, 2008
Latest reply on Feb 5, 2008 by Tom Nicholson

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Hopefully someone here can give me a bit of info on how or if there are some settings I can tweak to get some better performance with the setup I have. First off, here's the specs:

Processor : Intel D 840 - 3.2 Ghz - running in dual core mode
RAM : 2GB DDR2 667 Mhz running in dual mode
Video Card: ATI FireGL V5600 - 512MB (dual monitor - Resolution 1600x1200 32bit and 1024x768 32bit)
driver 8.391.2.1110 (downloaded from solidworks)

I did Anna's test and came up with total rebuild time of 363.22 seconds, that is with verification on rebuild off and level of detail set close to the 'less' side.. Not sure what else I can do, it just seems that it should be running a bit faster than that.

I also get some strange effects on some basic assemblies when moving or zooming the display. Some parts/sub-assemblies will just turn into blocks, and sometimes will just disappear until I do a rebuild.

Attached is a zip file of a screenshot of the system options - performance tab, a dxdiag.txt log, a cpuz.htm log from cpuz, and the benchmark from Anna's part.

Hopefully someone can shed some light, or at least a little flicker

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Anna Wood Jan 30, 2008 12:40 AM
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How much faster do you expect to get?

Not much you will be able to do I suspect with the old Intel P4 cpu architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D

As you can see the newer Intel Core 2 Duo's and Quad's are oddles faster.

Cheers,
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Tom Nicholson Jan 30, 2008 12:55 PM
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oh, I was under the assumption that the D was way better than the 4. Guess I might look into upgrading processors
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- Josh West @ Tom Nicholson on Jan 30, 2008 3:02 PM
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  Hi Tom,
  after the past couple of h*llish days I've been through with SolidQuirks, you might want to take this with a grain of salt.......
  
  The computer you have speched will probably outperform 90 plus percent of the pc's out there. No matter what processor we use or how much ram we thow at it, this thing will still run like a dog with one leg. I'm thinking that the single most significant upgrade any of us could make at this point would probably be software,,, and I don't mean the operating system.
  My boss has used the word "Apple" at least a half dozen times over the course of the last week and a half.
  *Insert Nervous Twitch Here*
  
  Think I'll go have a breakdown,,, I mean break now... see ya later.
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Tom Nicholson Feb 1, 2008 1:53 AM
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haha

Sorry to hear about your hell week, it happens to us all. Only time one of my bosses would say 'apple' is if one of our customers up in Georgia sends us down a box of apples

And yea, I thought it was a really good system, simple to complex parts run great, and maybe its just the way that I'm making the assembly and parts is what makes it such a dog, who knows..

I did have 3gb of ram in it (2 667mhz and 1 533mhz) running in single channel.. I took out the 533mhz stick, and it actually performs better with the 2gb dual channel.. go figure. And as far as upgrading the processor, thats out of the question atm, I'd have to get a new mobo too..
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- 1-6F218O @ Tom Nicholson on Feb 1, 2008 8:12 PM
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  Depending on the capabilitys of your MOB you might not have to upgrade it. Pentium D is a socket 775 and all the current intel processors are socket 775.
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Tom Nicholson Feb 4, 2008 12:26 PM
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Well, going off of intels specs, just says that the D/4 processors will only work. Now if the others will work, I don't know..

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d945pvs/
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- Martin Wrann @ Tom Nicholson on Feb 4, 2008 12:47 PM
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  Hi Tom!
  
  The Core 2 will not work on that chipset.
  
  (Intels) Core 2 Chipsets are:
  
  i975x
  i965
  P31
  P33
  P35
  X38
  
  Some Boards (mostly Abit) come with the i945 and support the core 2 - but thats not what it was meant to be.
  
  In your case you have to upgrade the board as well, if you insist on using a core 2.
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  - Dave Solly @ Martin Wrann on Feb 4, 2008 4:49 PM
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    The Pentium D is not much better than the Pentium 4
    It was basically the first of the mainstream dual core cpus on the market for intel.
    it doesn't handle multi-threading capabilities very well. This is where the C2D chips made the big jump in the market.
    
    On of the important features when looking for a good processor is to look at the amount of cache and FSB that it has, this is why the Penryn is so good, the extreme has 12Mb Cache (but you seriously have to pay for that)
    
    To get better performance from your machine, you are going to need to look at upgrading. I'd suggest minimum (assuming intel chipset) P35, if you have the money maybe look at a X38 with DDR2. DDR3 is very expensive for the small amount of game (in in NZ at least)
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Tom Nicholson Feb 5, 2008 2:18 PM
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Thanks for all the information guys and gal, I really appreciate it

Upgrading probably isn't an option at the moment.. the boss went out and bought this one for me, then I turned around and got a better vid card for it and new RAM.. Going to have to upgrade our other computer here soon, so who knows, I might be able to build one that will let me fly by the seat of my pants and pass this one down
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