Now playing: Breakdown - Breakdown
For quite some time I've being studding the performance possibilities of my actual PC. While the "temptation" of getting a more improved new machine, I´ve often caught myself contemplating my percentage of use of my actual equipment.
So far i'm not convinced that i'm overusing it. And it's a pretty lowbase machine compared to the new motherboard and processors.
Actual Hardware
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2.41GHz Socket AM2
Fan/Heat Sink:
Asaka OEM
Motherboard:
Asus M2N4-Sli
- 2 x PCI Express x16
- 2 x PCI Express x1
- 2 x PCI 2.2
- 10 x USB
- Gigabit Mac Lan
RAM:
Corsair Value Select DDR2 667Mhz 2048Mb PC2-5300(2x1024mb)
Storage:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA2 3.0 GB/s 160-GB Hard Drive
LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N 48X DVD/CD Writer
Generic 3.5” FDD
Graphics Card:
Foxconn NVidea GeForce 8600GT 256 Mb DDR2 Sli 128 bits
Sound Card:
Onboard
Monitor:
Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22” 1680x1050 @ 60 Hz
Power Supply Unit:
Seventeam ST-420BKV-03F 420W ATX PSU
Miscellaneous:
Forceline 101/102 keys ABNT-BR Keyboard
Clone Optical Mouse
OS:
Windows XP Professional SP3
BricoPacks Vista Inspirat 2
As you can see, it's not exactly bad, but not great either, it's just fine. I can do my work fine(rendering doesn't take much time since i do a lot of optimization prior rendering), and play some games at full specs without much lag. But, after looking around, i started thinking if it was worthy to push it to it's limits...
