What do you use your BP6 for?

merker19 · Post by **merker19** » Thu May 29, 2003 10:46 pm

I've been reading thru the threads in this particular section of the forum and I see a lot of old video cards being mentioned. Some have mentioned the latest and greatest like the ATI Radeon 9000, but for the most part I hear TNT or Voodoo being batted around. I have no problem with this... but it just makes me wonder what most of you fellow BP6'ers use your system for... I, myself, use it for surfing the web, email, newsgroups, word processing, and other things... unfortunately, I have a Voodoo 5500 and it doesn't seem to muster the fps I need to play one of my favorite games, Counter-Strike... I even tried a Geforce 4 MX440 64MB which didn't have the guns to raise the fps very much... so it makes me wonder, what you guys are using and what you use your system for.... is there a good video card out there that has the horsepower to power todays modern games using an outdated processor??? Or is the BP6 only good for surfing the web and running SETI?
Thx for the input!

_merker19

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Fri May 30, 2003 3:50 am

merker19 wrote:is there a good video card out there that has the horsepower to power todays modern games using an outdated processor???

Not really. Here are some CPU scaling benchmarks for UT2003 and at the bottom of this page is a CPU scaling chart for the Radeon 9700 Pro.

You see that the fps drop faster as you get closer down to 800 Mhz. With an Athlon XP. Now with a 500/600 Mhz Celeron with a lower per-Mhz-performance I think you won´t get decent framerates. At least in single player games like UT2003 botmatch because of the higher CPU load. In multiplayer it may be ok.

But a R9700 Pro will be _so much_ slower in a BP6 than in a modern system, it´s just a waste of horsepower, IMO. Better get a second- gaming- system and use the BP6 for what it´s good for: Work.

merker19 · Post by **merker19** » Fri May 30, 2003 6:43 pm

fair enuff... most video cards today scale their performance in accordance with the cpu. thx for your input!

_merker19

merker19 · Post by **merker19** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:04 am

so, my fellow bp6ers, it appears that the bp6 is not a gaming rig... but just curious, but what do ppl use their system for? i mean, surely surfin the the web, composing word docs, photoshop work, seti, etc... but what else? i'm just curious what u guys do with ur system...

Post by **Derek** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:35 pm

File serving and SETI work unit crunching

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 3:23 pm

i do everything

browsing, gaming, chatting, burning cd's, ripin mp3's, storage, SETI, and a few other things

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 10:55 pm

you are using single processor?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 3:38 pm

why not use dual?

naro · Post by **naro** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:53 am

sorry, i'm abit Noob.. but wat's SETI???

anyway, i bought my BP6 out of curiousity for SMP..

i find that even with 2x300A Celeron, it's faster than my bro's Duron 750Mhz.

Holodeck2 · Post by **Holodeck2** » Mon May 03, 2004 4:24 am

Mine's currently just a work station, serving, crunching, and programming. gameing's done on my other rig

Holodeck2 · Post by **Holodeck2** » Mon May 03, 2004 4:27 am

SETI = search for extratressials intelligence, you basically do FFT on radio packets and search for alian blips

BCN · Post by **BCN** » Mon May 03, 2004 8:18 am

after it got completely unstable and I got P4 system last year, it just has been without any work. now it will crunch SETI of course, then the usual stuff - browsing, word, pictures, movie watching, lan gaming etc.

naro · Post by **naro** » Mon May 03, 2004 8:53 am

Holodeck2 wrote:SETI = search for extratressials intelligence, you basically do FFT on radio packets and search for alian blips

that sounds cool... and a bit freaky...

wat's FFT???

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Mon May 03, 2004 12:06 pm

naro wrote:
Holodeck2 wrote:SETI = search for extratressials intelligence, you basically do FFT on radio packets and search for alian blips
that sounds cool... and a bit freaky...

wat's FFT???

Fast Fourier Transforms - frequency analysis...

Holodeck2 · Post by **Holodeck2** » Tue May 04, 2004 1:38 am

heh sorry about not defining FFT, brain wasn't working at 4 in the morning.
good thing to see that hyperspace got my back

naro · Post by **naro** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:33 pm

hey guys, i just sold my BP6 away.. now i'm only left with my Creative Slix SFF..

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